On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark wrote:
> This is not strictly true. Cfengine converts the dashes to underscore now.
> It does not allow them.
Oh, I see. That explains why my code worked, cfengine converted my
dashes to underscores before running my code. Thank you.
I am very glad I can
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Host inventory (Was: Machine types)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18488,18491#msg-18491
There is no shortage of free software inventory products. You can certainly
use Cfengine to run agents or gather information. No
On 9/24/2010 10:18 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>
>> I'm going to go off on a rant here. DNS names should not be used as an
>> inventory system. DNS is used to make host names easier to remember than IP
>> addresses. If a host name is harder to remember than an IP address then the
>> naming
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:52 AM, wrote:
>
> I'm going to go off on a rant here. DNS names should not be used as an
> inventory system. DNS is used to make host names easier to remember than IP
> addresses. If a host name is harder to remember than an IP address then the
> naming convention
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Machine types and auto-provisioning
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18480,18483#msg-18483
Any Nova Knowledge base users out there? This might be usable for host
inventory
Dear Mark and Nicolas,
Thank you for your reply. Dashes used to be illegal in class names, but as
of 3.0.5p1 that is no longer the case. I found this out yesterday:
cf-promise -v
listed both "lax-it-web01-prod01" and "lax_it_web01_prod01"; so I tried using
the "lax-it-web01-prod01" class and i
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: "irreconcilable constraints" error when trying to set a role class
based on a hostname. (Was Re: Machine types)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18468,18475#msg-18475
I'm going to go off on a rant here. D
On 24/09/2010 03:08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Problem: How to determine machine role from the hostname using Cfengine?
>
> Data: My server hostnames contain location code, department code,
> type (web/db/etc.) and environment (stage/prod/dev).
>
> For example: "lax-it-web01-prod01".
> Locati
Problem: How to determine machine role from the hostname using Cfengine?
Data: My server hostnames contain location code, department code,
type (web/db/etc.) and environment (stage/prod/dev).
For example: "lax-it-web01-prod01".
Location: Los Angeles
Department: IT
Primary role: Web (first serv
Michael Potter writes:
>can do something like:
>"alt_class" or => { "linux", "solaris", fileexists("/etc/fstab") };
That is where I got my idea from. All the machines are linux.
> hostnames are very descriptive and indicate 1) the machine role (e.g.
> webserver, data-server) 2) the mac
ot;/etc/fstab") };
>
> Could one just use fileexists to define classes to target different machine
> types?
>
> For example creating:
> /cfengine-machine-type-smtp
> /cfengine-machine-type-web
> /cfengine-machine-type-db
>
> So each type of machine would only have
On 9/22/10 12:02 PM, "Francisco Reyes" wrote:
> Mike Hoskins writes:
>
>> How many hosts? Machine types?
>
> About 60 hosts with 3 main types.
Cool.
>> For starters (I know it is just boring semantics, sorry if it points out the
>> obvious) -- pick
Mike Hoskins writes:
> How many hosts? Machine types?
About 60 hosts with 3 main types.
> For starters (I know it is just boring semantics, sorry if it points out the
> obvious) -- pick some central dir (beside /) to hold your semaphores (files)
> lest your fs become untidy.
Mark Burgess writes:
>
>> With lots of help from Michael Ciavarella I got an initial test setup going.
>> The first thing that became obvious is that there wasn't a straightfoward
>> way to define groups of machines for receiving certain tasks/files.
>
> classes:
>
> "mygroup" or => { "host1
> With lots of help from Michael Ciavarella I got an initial test setup going.
> The first thing that became obvious is that there wasn't a straightfoward
> way to define groups of machines for receiving certain tasks/files.
classes:
"mygroup" or => { "host1", "host2", "host3" };
This i
les.
>
> Looking at the official tutorial at
> http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-tutorial.html#Decisions I see that one
> can do something like:
> "alt_class" or => { "linux", "solaris", fileexists("/etc/fstab") };
>
> Could one jus
s/cf3-tutorial.html#Decisions I see that one
can do something like:
"alt_class" or => { "linux", "solaris", fileexists("/etc/fstab") };
Could one just use fileexists to define classes to target different machine
types?
For example creating:
/cfengine-machin
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