If you don't see a use, don't use the feature. However, when you have an issue and people suggest external nodes is the answer, you might consider listening.
-Paul On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm really just not getting the whole point of external nodes. The > more I look at it, the less I see the point. > > For starters, you have to pass arguments from your node back to your > classes via what appear to be global variables, and then if you have > multiple instances of a specific piece of software running, on a node > (which is not that uncommon) you have to qualify these global > variables in some manner, inst1_var1, inst2_var1 etc. > > C'mon... seriously, what am I missing here? > > Doug > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
