On 4 Jan 2010, at 2:52 pm, [email protected] wrote:

> Yes.  You can do this.  Here is a recipe with CF version 2.  You'll  
> have
> to figure out the Cf 3 way but the principle is the same.
> http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html#SECTION000200000000000000000

That method's a little unwieldy if you have large numbers of clients.   
How large can a variable get?  I personally have over 2200 machines  
being managed by cfengine, and if I were to use that recipe, I'd have  
a 24 kilobyte variable just to hold the names of all the machines.  I  
also have machines coming and going on an almost daily basis, so I'd  
have to do something clever to populate that list from an external  
module.

Personally, I do log aggregation with a completely separate tool,  
better suited for the job (Splunk, in our case).  I use cfengine to  
configure rsyslog on all of the clients to tell them where the Splunk  
server is.

Tim


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