On 05/21/2010 12:11 AM, Douglas Garstang 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 > Maybe the person who suggested it meant LDAP nodes. Different and maybe fits your use case better.
I don't use either but now with regex for nodes I see less of a need for the external nodes feature, but I can definitely dig LDAP nodes. I just don't have a big enough environment to warrant using it atm. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire -- 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.
