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From: | Steve Wray |
Subject: | Re: Querying clients |
Date: | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:36:31 +1300 |
User-agent: | Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) |
Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:43:04PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote:It is still useful to be able to collect data on the existing state of a machine and pass that back to the cfengine server. I can think of *lots* of reasons one might want to do this.Please share. I can't think of anything that cfengine can do on the server that it can't do on the client.
Not necessarily for cfengines direct benefit.Eg. I'm in the process of converging a set of debian hosts to management under cfengine.
I have a partial system for doing package upgrades and at the moment I would very much like to pull in, to the cfengine server, each hosts current package selection states so that these can be compared and I can use these to work toward convergence, detect implicit host classes etc.
I agree that once a set of hosts are under cfengine control and converged the need is much reduced, but what a lot of people tend to forget is that bringing hosts to convergence takes a lot of careful examination of how each host is configured; finding the implicit classes and making them explicit.
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