Mike Hoskins writes: > How many hosts? Machine types?
About 60 hosts with 3 main types. > For starters (I know it is just boring semantics, sorry if it points out the > obvious) -- pick some central dir (beside /) to hold your semaphores (files) > lest your fs become untidy. Will do. Was easiest to type in example. :-) > Determining a host's "role" by absence or presence of a file (perhaps > touched as part of your net-install/provisioning?) Yes. Our setup is basically: Kickstart to install CentOS >From the new machine we get a tar from a centrail repository(manual process) Tar file has our entire setup with "targets" Based on the machine target (ie a web server) we will setup the flag files. Right now by the time we finish the install a machine is mostly ready to run. There are still some parts that need to be done manually, but it's minimal. > also use RegCmp and hostname patterns (e.g. prod-ldap-master01)... There > are many possible implementations, but your idea is sound. Names may not always work for us because there are some "hybrid" machines that may do a few things, but for cfengine purposes they will be of one of the defined 3 types web smtp database > some day) is to build an inventory management database early on. Ours has a > notion of "role" derived from various things like location, environment, > product and purpose. We have a module that pulls this information from the > central database (caching locally for some period of time). Then if we want > to change the role of 100 machines, we don't need to manipulate files...just > run a SQL to update the database, and grab some coffee. So how do you propagate the knowledge from the DB to cfengine? >We use import a lot, so there is a minimal set of "common" policy which >gets ran everywhere, and the rest only runs on hosts matching specific roles. Right now we will have some common policies such as, /etc/resolver, and others based on role. I plan to work on the basics and slowly get more and more into the management system (likely cfengine). Can classes be nested? In addition to the 3 types (Web, smtp and DB) I also have 2 locations. So perhaps a better picture is.. Location1 web smtp DB Location2 web smtp DB If classes can't be nested I guess it could be kept flat by having 6 files to check. Initially I will start with just one location just to start with a simpler setup. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
