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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access At Work? Post 302278137 by avronius on Monday 19th of January 2009 11:47:22 AM
Old 01-19-2009
Another perspective...

When you have 2 or 3 servers, you can probably afford the time to rebuild each server from scratch several times a year.

When you have 2 or 3 hundred servers, you need to regularly monitor them - check statistics, clean up stale mount points, identify core dumps (and resolve the issue behind them), etc. Consistency is key. There's always something that needs attention. And because no system exists in a vacuum, there's always some variety of change. Business requirements increase (or decrease), legacy hardware needs to be replaced, new gear needs to be integrated...

If you let any one system get to the point where it requires severe maintenance, that time crowds out your regular maintenance, and you can easily end up on the wrong side of an avalanche of work related to sick servers.

In any given day, I may only touch 5 or 10 hosts. But I manage ALL of them.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

showmount

SHOWMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      SHOWMOUNT(8)

NAME

     showmount -- show remote NFS mounts on host

SYNOPSIS

     showmount [-Ae36] [-a | -d] [host]

DESCRIPTION

     showmount shows status information about the NFS server on host.  By default it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS file systems
     mounted on the host. See NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A, and NFS: Network File System Version 3
     Protocol Specification, Appendix I, for a detailed description of the protocol.

     -A      Search for NFS servers advertised via Bonjour.

     -a      List all mount points in the form: host:dirpath

     -d      List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts.

     -e      Show the host's exports list.

     -3      Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3.

     -6      Use only IPv6 addresses to contact servers.

SEE ALSO

     mount(1), mountd(8), nfsd(8), mDNSResponder(8)

BUGS

     The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless.  showmount will only display
     the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.

HISTORY

     The showmount utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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