On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:05 AM, <no-re...@cfengine.com> wrote:
> Forum: Cfengine Help
> Subject: bundlesequence and inputs using readstringlist
> Author: skibumatbu
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19057,19057#msg-19057
>
> As we start to use cfengine more and more, our bundlesequence is going to
> grow longer and longer. Right now it is taking up 2 lines in our promises.cf
> file, and we're just starting to roll it out. As we do more, it will only
> grow larger. I'd like to do something like this:
>
> body common control {
> bundlesequence => { "$(sequenceinputs.bundles)" };
> inputs => { "$(sequenceinputs.inputs)" };
> }
>
> bundle common sequenceinputs {
> vars:
> "dir" string => "/opt/cfengine/var/inputs";
> "inputs" slist => { readstringlist( "$(dir)/inputs", "$.*", "\s",100,
> 1000000 ) };
> "bundles" slist => { readstringlist( "$(dir)/bundles", "$.*", "\s",100,
> 1000000 ) };
> }
>
> When I try this, it hangs indefinitely when running
>
> /opt/cfengine/sbin/cf-agent -v -n
> ...snip...
> cf3 ***********************************************************
> cf3 Loaded persistent memory
> cf3 ***********************************************************
> cf3 > Verifying the syntax of the inputs...
>
> I've got to be doing something simple wrong. Any thoughts?
I would recommend againt doing it this way - whenever you take things
"out" of cfengine (like storing names in simple text files), you lose
a lot of the power of the cfengine syntax, particularly the ability to
use classes when building a list. I usually take this approach: have a
file called site.cf that has a common bundle in it, and use classes to
create and extend a list which you then include as your
bundlesequence. Something like this:
bundle common g {
classes:
"web_server" expression => classmatch("ACME_web.*");
"db_server" expression => classmatch("ACME_db.*");
"test_server" expression => classmatch("ACME_.*test.*");
"datacenter_1" expression => classmatch("ACME_.*dc1.*");
"datacenter_2" expression => classmatch("ACME_.*dc2.*");
vars:
any::
"common_seq" slist => {
"bootstrap_checks",
"HelloWorld",
"cleanup"
};
web_server::
"local_seq" slist => {
"apache2"
};
db_server::
"local_seq" slist => {
"mongoDB"
};
test_server::
"local_seq" slist => {
"apache2"
};
web_server&datacenter_2&Overloaded::
"augment1" slist => {
"migrate_web_workload"
};
start_cf_procs::
"augment1" slist => {
"bootstrap_services"
};
any::
# Use this list as your bundlesequence!
"site_seq" slist => {
"@(g.common_seq)",
"@(g.local_seq)",
"@(g.augment1)",
}, policy => "ifdefined";
}
I think you will find this is a much more powerful and flexible
approach. As for reading .cf files, hardcoding them into your
pomises.cf "include" option can be tedious - however the solution I
would prefer to see here is the ability to include a directory (and
all the .cf file in it), in the same way other tools like Nagios and
Apache allow you to do.
> Scott
>
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