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Has anyone used BMC's bladelogic product? Does anyone know any alternatives? I'm basically looking to see if their is any product out there like that, where I can use roles to control access to servers, where the user can login via putty/ssh. I'm not looking for a password management solution, but more of a role/user solution. I dont think chef/puppet/ansible have this ability. You can run remote commands and such, but I dont think I could use that to pull up logs and work as if I was on an ssh session on the server. Might be wrong on that though.

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efnor
Why would you SSH in and pull logs instead of using a centralized logging solution like ELK stack?
FlopV
That's a good point. It would probably be best to use something like that, and something like chef/ansible for commands as needed.
raincom
If your servers are running linux, use netgroups to access control. Basically, the fields are different based whether the entry is a host or a user. cf: pam_access.so & /etc/security/access.conf

Bladelogic is so ancient. The last place I saw was like 8 years ago, they got rid of that as well.