Re: Various Policy Server Questions

2010-05-24 Thread Seva Gluschenko
Tom, What did you mean by your unsuccessful attempt of multiple policy servers usage? The "servers" parameter of the copy_from compound body is "slist", definitely. 2010/5/25 Tom Tucker : > I have been testing CFengine 3 successfully for the past month and I'm now > trying to re-scale my configur

Various Policy Server Questions

2010-05-24 Thread Tom Tucker
I have been testing CFengine 3 successfully for the past month and I'm now trying to re-scale my configuration to properly support my work environment. My company has approximately 3,000 devices spanning three data centers that is segregted into production, dev, qa, and lab environments. I would

RE: Conditional control_common attribute

2010-05-24 Thread Justin Lloyd
Dan, I have three (eventually five) license.dat files, one per policy server. The idea is that each of our environment's runtimes (named IS[sandbox], BNZI[dev integration], Neon2[test], Neon0[test], and Gold[production]) has a dedicated policy server. That way, when I make a change to our policy f

Re: Conditional control_common attribute

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel V Klein
Justin- Do you really have three separate licenses, or do you just want to distribute policy from three servers? If the latter, the host_licenses_paid is the number of licenses, not the number of suppoorted clients (and so you don't need to have a conditional control parameter :-) And if the for

Conditional control_common attribute

2010-05-24 Thread Justin Lloyd
Hi all, I submitted a ticket to Cfengine Support to find out if there's a way to conditionally set an attribute in the common control body in promises.cf, but I thought I'd ask here, too, in case anyone else has run into this. Cfengine Nova has a control_common parameter named host_licenses_paid

Re: newbie cfengine2 question about server roles

2010-05-24 Thread Mark Burgess
Vasiliy, if you are starting with Cfengine then whatever you do start with Cfengine 3!! It will give you enormous benefits. The way to do this is to make your "recipe" into what Cfengine calls a "bundle" and then promise to use it as a method, inside a class-context that represents the role

newbie cfengine2 question about server roles

2010-05-24 Thread Vasiliy G Tolstov
Hello. I'm try to use cfengine2 after chef. In chef i can create roles that contains recipes. When i'm apply role to server all recipes is done on it. How i can do something in cfengine2 ? Thank You. ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfeng