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Change Management Workflow Using Yum

We have a fairly strict patching process that we have to follow: Patch a development or testing machine Wait one week to see if it explodes Patch the corresponding production machine to the same ...
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System compare tools [closed]

To enable us to do better change management tracking on our hosting platform, I need to be able to compare our production Windows 2003/2008 virtual servers with the base image they were cloned from. ...
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Use git for multiple server configuration files

We have migrated a lot of source code over to git and are very happy with our current solution. We would like to have our server configuration files versioned on the same system, but there are a few ...
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Software Release Tracking Tool

We have multiple applications and way too many environments. It is really hard to keep track of which version of what software is installed where? What I am looking for is a tool that would basically ...
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Is there a etckeeper equivalent for Windows? AKA Windows config revision-control

So, I want to make a central config file mercurial repository, so that I can have the changes to any config under revision control. This will include some GNU/Linux boxes (which will use etckeeper), ...
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Simple test plan template for Change management

We're looking for short checklist/template for to show that the change has actually worked and hasn't broken anything. This is being introduced as part of a more formal change management process. ...
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How to copy an SVN repository periodically without losing the target tags, and branches?

We want to download (export, checkout) a complete repository, and import to a different repository (with all the commit messages) periodically so we can implement a tag/branch strategy. Background: ...
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Change Management Software [closed]

I manage an 80,000 user CIS application written in Uniface. Every form in the application, and many of its processes, are represented by .frm files. We have hundreds of these files and 5 instances of ...
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Keeping track of changes to a System during Software/Patch Installation

Let's say I'm installing a software on Windows and I want to see all the changes it has made during its installation, what is the easiest way to keep track of system changes. The change could happen ...
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Does your change control process score change requester and/or implementers?

Does your organisation have a change process, formalising every change, from whole new system deployments to cable patches? If so does your process score those asking for changes or/and also those ...
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Using revision control for Windows server configuration?

Does anyone have experience with Puppet or cfengine like setups for a Windows server environment? Is there such a thing? I am looking to track configuration file and file security changes over a ...
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Using revision control for server configuration files?

In an environment with multiple system administrators, I see a few advantages to adding the server config files into a revision control system. Most notable are the ability to track changes, who made ...
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Are there any tools to do change management with Active Directory / Group Policy?

We seem to be having a lot of problems related to "forgetting some mundane detail" while managing our Group Policy settings in Active Directory, so I am curious as to whether there are any ...
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What tool do you recommend to track changes on a Linux/Unix server

I manage several Linux servers for clients in several roles like email, caching, web serving, filtering, firewalling/routing, and so on. Since I don't own these computers and just provide remote ...