On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:52 AM, <no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote: > > I'm going to go off on a rant here. DNS names should not be used as an > inventory system. DNS is used to make host names easier to remember than IP > addresses. If a host name is harder to remember than an IP address then the > naming convention has failed. > http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/name-conv.html > > There is no substitute for a proper inventory system. > > When you make class names you need a-zA-Z0-9_ only. The underscore is the > only allowable punctuation. > When in doubt classify or canonify.
That's a pretty good rant. Totally spot on, of course. Thank you. Since I don't have an inventory system now, I am considering if I can do it Cfengine or if I need to use an external data store. Aleksey _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
