[rudder-users] How to manage rudder server

[Francois Armand]

On 31/10/2011 20:49, Jean Rémond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems impossible to manage the rudder server through the web interface.
> Is it a technical limit ?

You are quite right, for now it is not possible to manage the Rudder 
server with itself. It is not a technical limit, but it was a behaviour 
choice we did a long time ago, when Rudder wasn't looking as what it is 
now.

We have recently considered the possibility to add Rudder 
self-management feature, but for now, we didn't set a timeline for it.
A ticket opens by a member of the community for that very feature could 
rise its priority a lot ;)

> Can you provide the "agent" part inside of the server package ?
> It would be a way to provide a standalone machine to try rudder.

We could think about it, please open a ticket to describe that use case. 
We are also thinking about building some VM images (a server and one or 
two node) to allows to test Rudder in a simple way.
And finally, we are also thinking about adding a "demo data" set of 
files that could be imported into a server, to preconfigure some 
groups/policy instances/configuration rules. But in that case, nodes are 
still needed to fully test Rudder.

Hope it helps,

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