A VM is an independent server with its own IP address, access routes and stuff... I think it counts.

Oooh... gimme! I just like that OS. Dunno why.

I have access to some 800+ Solaris 8/9/10 ( SPARC ) boxes, and 300+ SLES boxes. I am not counting VMs, becasue if I do I have no idea of what the numbers are.

1 comuter with remote access to 2 remote dedicated

More than 15 or so i guess, ranging from HPux to AiX as well as Solaris and Linux (which is my preferred )

:sigh: one :sigh:

It actually makes me wonder what some of you are doing with root access to hundreds of servers. And what industry the business is in.

To answer my own question, we're an electrical supply distributor (I.E. We sell products to electricians and building mantenance people, etc). We have 17 locations and the unix box runs our business software. We have Windows servers for email, domain and file servers, etc. The users have ordinary PCs.

To my opinion you cannot manage a box without root access. So I have root access to all boxes I'm responsible for, both AIX (approx. 25), physical RHEL (approx. 80) and virtual (vm) RHEL (approx 120).

We are using both sudo (no direct root access) and direct root access. We are moving away from direct root access and moving towards sudo root access. Although I'm not convinced that this is safer, I'm very much in favor of this method.

We have 2 datacenters with ~70 p5 machines each, mostly p570 and some p550. All of them are run in LPAR mode. There is a dwindling number of 6H1s, M80s, B50s and the likes.

*puts tongue in cheek* I dunno why either. AIX forever.

bakunin