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Facter: Works pretty good. :)
by freiheit
Facter is used by puppet to gather data about the systems puppet is managing. It's actually fairly mature and doesn't need to be changed very often.
I haven't done it, but it should be trivial to make it work with other systems that need something like this.
Reasonably easy to write plugins for, though you'll need to know a little ruby to do it. I've written a few that are probably mostly only useful for my site; fairly little overhead beyond figuring out how to write the code to gather the data you need.
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Tomcat: I dread debugging. Hate configs. Docs lacking.
by freiheit
I'm mostly a sysadmin, and I've never been a Java programmer, so my perspective is a little different...
It's definitely robust and seems to work well at what it does.
But the documentation and the configuration files both suck!
Want to do something typical: no need to read the docs at all, and no need to change the configuration: the defaults are pretty good for most cases.
Need to do something unusual? Good
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