No, this is not a Nova-ony feature.  The policy_server.dat file is part of
the Nova configs, but you can build the functionality yourself in Community.

-Dan

> Umm....possibly. :) I've never used Community, so I guess I don't know exactl
> y where the differences are. However, promises.cf reads that file into a vari
> able $(def.policy_server), so it is probably just a convenience provided with
>  Nova. Community has to have the policy server defined somewhere, so there's 
> no reason this couldn't be manually defined just as easily.
> 
> Justin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seva Gluschenko [mailto:seva.glusche...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 1:39 PM
> To: Justin Lloyd
> Cc: Tom Tucker; Help-cfengine@cfengine.org
> Subject: Re: Multiple Policy Servers
> 
> Justin,
> 
> Let me guess, this belongs to Nova only? :)
> 
> 2010/6/11 Justin Lloyd <jll...@digitalglobe.com>:
> > The file /var/cfengine/policy_server.dat on the client should contain the I
> P
> > address of the policy server to which the client should connect.
> >
> >
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> >
> > From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org
> > [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Tom Tucker
> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 1:14 PM
> > To: Help-cfengine@cfengine.org
> > Subject: Multiple Policy Servers
> >
> >
> >
> > I see we can define multiple policy servers, but can we dictate which
> > server(s) clients communicate with?  For example, if you had firewalled off
> > lab environment.  I understand the clients would loop through each server
> > defined until it succeeds.  It seems like it would be more efficient in this
> > distributed model if the clients would try to communicate with local PS
> > first.
> >
> >
> > per cf3-reference.html
> > ----------------------
> > body copy_from example
> >     {
> >     servers => { "primary.example.org", "secondary.example.org",
> >                       "tertiary.other.domain" };
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