This is part Two of an N-part series (I'm thinking 4 parts) discussing the investigation of radmin as a patch/deployment tool for FreeBSD. It will be filled in over the course of Q2/2009 as we test (and possibly deploy) radmin at Premier Heart.
This part deals with some more basics: Creating an radmind "Base Load" to distribute to your machines.
The radmind Base Load is the template that will be deployed to all servers and consists of Three major parts:
A "Positive Transcript" (often just called a transcript), which lists files and directories to be included in radmind deployments
A "Negative Transcript", which lists files and directories to be created or adjusted, but not replaced by radmind deployments
A "Defaults Transcript", which is a special case of a negative transcript.