Overview#
With MCollective version 2.0 we now have support for controlling Windows Servers. The only thing you must be aware of is that you need to update all your infrastructure to mco 2.0 because you cannot control servers that have a different version installed.
The Windows Installer#
This allows us to complete the support of our KermIT project, which is (we have many enhancements in development ;)) a web interface to control mcollective infrastructure by adding Windows support. The “problem” was that no Windows package was available during our tests and, knowing that usual production environment servers could not have access to internet, this could cause installation problems.
For this reason we developed and created an installer for Windows Server using Rake (make for ruby project) and Inno Setup to create the final .exe setup file.
Downloads#
If you want to test it you can find the installer (and source for the Rake file) here.
Enjoy and report us any problem.