you can use external nodes to do that, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html just using a script to generate the nodes' info.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Nikhil Mulley <mnik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my puppet configuration, to deploy certain files to group of nodes, > everytime either a new class of node is being used or the node class has to > typically extended to many other machines and is likely more typing. The > more typing can generally result in anomalies/errors in hosts. > > For example: > > node x1.y.z x2.y.z x3.y.z x4.y.z{ > ... > ... > } > > What I am trying to formulate this into is use the netgroup information > available from /etc/netgroup and get this grouped as > > node @xN-y-z-hosts { > ... > ... > } > > or > > > nodegroup @xN-y-z-hosts { > ... > ... > } > > What are the things that would possibly require the changes to? > > Thanks, > Nikhil > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/oB1zl_KR2MoJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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.