The document discusses data center automation using Puppet. It highlights that currently most IT staff spend time on maintenance and support tasks rather than strategic initiatives. It promotes Puppet as a solution to automate system configuration, software installation, security policies, and other tasks across a data center. This would help reduce errors, improve compliance and change management, and allow organizations to achieve more with fewer IT resources. Examples are provided of organizations currently using Puppet successfully.

1. Data Center Automation
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2. Today’s IT State
 Nearly 72% of IT staff
perform maintenance &
support tasks
Only 28% are assigned to
participate in strategic
initiatives
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3. Typical System Lifecycle
Fixes
Installation Configuration
Patches
Audits
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4. Occurrence, Recurrence, Idempotence
Configure the
System (Web, DB.
App, etc.)
System
Apply Security Crash?
Policies, Satisfy
Compliance Needs
System
Error OR System Monitoring
Are there Migration?
more
systems to
configure?
System Fully
Configured and is
Compliant
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5. What lies in there?
 Systems need to be configured
 More the systems, more is the work
 Bad configuration can be worst than no configuration
 Temporary changes become permanent
 Changes are meant to forget
 Users are created, deleted and recreated
 Software is installed, uninstalled and reinstalled
 Need to log into the system one-by-one and configure
 Need for compliance and identical configuration, policies
 Change Auditing is a nightmare
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6. What Happens Without Automation?
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7. Test Your IT Infrastructure, Ask your Administrator…
 How many changes were made in 100 servers in last 3
months?
 Install this software or change a parameter in a file on 500
servers within 10mins?
 Recover 5 crashed servers in 10mins?
 Cut down IT man power – handle 300 servers with a single
resource?
 Have consistent configuration throughout the organization
on 500 servers?
 Show the configuration file that was changed on 10th
December 2002, 20th January 2005 and 25th December
2009?
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8. Current Business Challenges
 Increasing IT demands
 Complex IT Infrastructure
 Ever changing technology landscape
• Hardware/Software upgrades
• Adoption of new technologies
• Training needs
 High dependency on human resources
 Difficult knowledge transfer during staff attrition
 Compliance Enforcement and Management
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9. Current Technology Challenges
 Template based software configuration across data center
 Enforcing change management for all the IT resources
 Multiple ownerships for same IT resource to facilitate 24X7
support
 Human driven machines are more error prone
 Difficult and time consuming recovery procedures
 Rolling out software configuration changes or new software
across an entire organization, groups, individual resources
 Single window IT support console
 Under-achieved SLAs
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10. Solution – Puppet
 Centralized configuration management for entire data center
 Template based software configurations – Applicable to
individual resource, resource groups and organization wide
resources
 Quick recovery of the crashed system by using master
configurations stored in the automation framework
 Version controlled configuration files
 Dashboard to show configuration changes with historical
reports
 Single console to manage entire data center – No need to login
to individual servers
 Improved SLAs
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11. What can we automate?
 Software Installation
 Patch Management
 Software Configuration (Web, DB, App, etc.)
 Security Policies
 Change Management
 User/Group Management
 Day-to-day tasks (Commands, Scripts, Scheduled tasks,
Log Management)
 Disaster Recovery
 Auditing
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12. Business Benefits
 Policy compliance (SOX, SAS70, ISO 27001,
etc.)
 Better Change Management (ITIL)
 Lower human dependencies
 More servers per administrator
 Shift of human resource focus towards
strategic planning
 Reduced Errors – Complete peace of mind
 Experience the Automated world
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13. Who is already using Puppet?
 Following organizations are few out of the long list who utilized the data
center automation framework to benefit their businesses.
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14. Supported Platforms
 Linux  BSD
• CentOS  FreeBSD 4.7 and later
• Debian 3.1 and later  OpenBSD 4.1 and later
• Fedora Core 2-6
• Fedora 7 and later
• Gentoo Linux  Other Unix
• Mandriva Corporate Server 4  Macintosh OS X
• RHEL 3 and later  Sun Solaris 2.6
• Oracle Linux  Sun Solaris 7 and later
• SuSE Linux 8 and later
• Ubuntu 7.04 and later
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15. How does it work?
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16. What do we offer?
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17. Contact Us
ZoNIX Systems
H-87, First Floor, Sector-63
Noida-201301
Ph. 91-120-649-5554
Email. info@ZoNIXSystems.com
Web. www.ZoNIXSystems.com
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