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CFEngine is a way of managing a large number of machines and keeping them in sync. It was written by Oslo university to manage all their machines. It even (apparently) supports MicrosoftWindows. CFEngine tends to have a bit of a bias towards systems like this (lots of identical machines in a university enviroment) however it can be used when the machines are more different.

CFEngine works by pulling configs from a central site, and running it on each machine. It can also push configs out etc.

See CFEngineNotes for some of the tricks and traps we found along the way

Also, there is a new wiki just for cfengine: cfwiki.org