Re: Failover redundancy in policyhosts

[Mark . Burgess]

You could use define= or elsedefine= to trigger new things
based on what the outcome of the copy was. The only disadvantage
is that if no file is copied at all, it will check every policy
host... I shall think about a better way.

cheers,
Mark


On 25 Jun, Paul Paradise wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking at the feasibility of a cfengine distribution across about
> 1000 Solaris 6-8, HPUX 10.20-11i, and Linux machines. With a network
> of this size we're specifically looking at some form of redundant
> policyhost ability.
> 
> While it's easy to distribute the load by defining policyhost based on
> classes and using a splay time, we're planning on distributing a lot
> of files via the copy action from a remote server, but we'd like the
> ability to do something like this:
> 
> control:
> 
>     policyhost = ( copy1 copy2 copy3 )
>     actionsequence = ( copy )
> 
> copy:
>     /files dest=/tmp m=644 server=$policyhost
> 
> I can emulate this by assigning copyhosts to one host based on some
> class and varying the host, but I want the ability to fail over to
> another host in the list if the client cannot connect to the server.
> 



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