I was exploring options of setting up a centralized configuration information respository which could be managed by a GUI/Web.I have around 100+ servers all running linux (mostly redhat).I tried the Apache/Mysql/Script based approach,unfortunately I do not have the time/experstise to do it.
The IT folks used cfengine to maintain the workstations of 250 engineers at the most recent place I worked. I thought it was very complex, they seemed to like it. We used a version of RedHat on our workstations (with VMWare running Windows for office documents) ... cheers, drl
cfengine2 - Tool for configuring and maintaining network machines