Puppet and NRPE

Question

Hi!

Can I replace NRPE for Puppet, for managing? If the answer if affirmative, could somebody explain me which are the advantages between both of them?.

Thanks,

Answer 1

No

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I think you are comparing two different things.

NRPE is an agent for remote monitoring.

Puppet is a configuration management framework, sort of like make(1) for entire *nix systems.

So, if what you want to do is install software and tweak configurations, puppet is a good place to start.