Application deployment in Linux..

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Hi everyone,

I am new to linux world, I have a question about application deployment in Linux.

Suppose, I have an application that I would like to install into several client machine all at once, by pushing from the server.

What Program would allow me to accomplish that.?

Thanks You all,

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Have a look at rsync.

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Could you please provide a link regarding application deployment and rsync. I was unable to find any information.

Thanks,

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As with any tool in Unix/Linux you do

man rsync

to get the documentation.

rsync is a tool to remote syncronize directories/files. It is often used for backups, where it sees that only directories/files with changed contents (or new ones) are copied. But when the directories/files on the remote systems happen to be parts of an application (executables, libraries, configuration, documentation) they can of course be rsynced to containt a new version of the application.

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Hi every one,

I have reviewed the rsync manual page. I believe the terminology that I have used has been confusing.

Application deployment-In a large production server environment, software Installations is Automated or deployed to all clients at one. The Microsoft version is called SMS 2003 Application Deployment.

With this software I can install, for example, Adobe Photoshop to certain client machines.

I am looking for the Linux version.

Thanks,

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I admit that I interpreted it as that you want to have a bunch of files being synchronised to a few systems on your LAN (about that scale). Running the *rsyncd *deamon on those systems and starting the *rsync *client to distribute is then an option.

As I have no knowledge of Windows I can not exactly compaire with SMS 2003 Application Deployment and I do not know how to achieve the same thing in Linux. But remember that Linux is not Windows and that looking for an exact one to one replacement of a software is not always applicable, Linux having a complete different approach.

In openSUSE software is normaly installed with YaST, but this is a GUI frontend to *zipper *that can be run from the GUI or a script. A schema where you inform the systems that an update is to be installed, followed by a call to zipper on that system might be a solution.

I hope others who have experience with this might help here.

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Hi,

for features that are comparable and surpass SMS 2003, Novell Zenworks is what you neeed.

Manage and Protect Your Endpoints with Novell ZENworks Configuration Management

cheers
J

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Hi,

using a linux-server,
to deploy OS to an pc, use pxe-booting and tftf server.

If you want to deploy applications to Windos-Clients, have a look to
opsi.org
and
unattended

If you deploy to Linux-clients look at m23 for debian based distributions or yast for opensuse distribution

If you need to deploy both, windos and linux clients, look at openqrm

good luck :wink:

Rolf