[rudder-dev] using rudder for other elements like ethernet switches etc

[Francois Armand]

Hello Andreas,

Sorry for the delay, we somehow miss your email until now.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to directly manage with Rudder 
anything but system with a supported OS on it (due to agent-based nature 
of it).

We are discussing the possibility to have a new kind of agent-less 
support for such kinds of devices, where actually the nearest policy 
server will do the job and contact/manage them through their API (or ssh 
or whatever they allow). In the same broad of ideas, we are thinking 
about how to support ansible (the execution model is roughly the same).

But to be honest, this nowhere near completion - we are still at the 
drawing board on these subjects. Having a sponsored use case would 
greatly help to make them move forward faster.

In the meantime, you can still use the scripts you may already have to 
manage these devices and run them from a node managed by Rudder (I know 
it's nowhere near a good, not even a good enough solution, but it can 
help automate the thing).

I fear I can't help you much more on that subject. Hope it still helps a 
little.

Have a good day !

On 16/11/2017 09:25, Andreas Heckwolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering if it is possible to use rudder to manage other types of nodes. How would one go about managing ethernet switches for example? Firmware version and firmware update? Has this been discussed before?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
>
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