Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Douglas Garstang
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Atha Kouroussis wrote: > On May 21, 2010, at 02:16 , Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Paul Lathrop >> wrote: >>> If you don't see a use, don't use the feature. However, when you have >>> an issue and people suggest external nodes is

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread David Schmitt
On 5/21/2010 5:33 PM, Ashley Penney wrote: As as an example for what I do in nodes.pp and what is hard for me to do is things like this: node "hlslinutil1.law.harvard.edu" { $ip = "10.241.209.118" $broadcast = "10.241.209.255" $netmask = "255.255.255.0" $network = "10.241.20

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Ashley Penney
As as an example for what I do in nodes.pp and what is hard for me to do is things like this: node "hlslinutil1.law.harvard.edu" { $ip = "10.241.209.118" $broadcast = "10.241.209.255" $netmask = "255.255.255.0" $network = "10.241.209.0" $gateway = "10.241.209.1" $hlsenvir

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Atha Kouroussis
On May 21, 2010, at 02:16 , Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: >> 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, I initially

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Steven VanDevender
Douglas Garstang writes: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Paul Lathrop > wrote: > > 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, I initially asked about a

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-20 Thread Joe McDonagh
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

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-20 Thread Douglas Garstang
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > 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, I initially asked about a way to parse nodes files such that I could upda

Re: [Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Lathrop
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 wrote: > I'm really just not getting the whole point of external nodes. The > more I loo

[Puppet Users] More External Nodes

2010-05-20 Thread Douglas Garstang
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 softwa