Re: Strategy for "one-off" tasks

[Allen Bettilyon]

For this example, I would write a static-routes config file that listed
all the needed routes, and than write a second script than maintained
the routes.  In fact, I am doing exactly that (using red-hats
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes ) method.


For example, I've got an inputs/global.static-routes file that looks
kinda like this:

(Bear in mind, this IS redhat specific... but you should get the idea). 

control:

  hw_class1::             admin_dev = ( eth1 )
  hw_class2::             admin_dev = ( eth0 )
  hw_class3::             admin_dev = ( eth2 )


  any:: 
     route_file = ( /etc/sysconfig/static-routes )

     actionsequence = (
        editfiles.static_routes
        shellcommands.static_routes
     )



editfiles:
   static_routes::

      { $(route_file)
           AppendIfNoSuchLine "$(admin_dev) net 10.10.0.0 netmask
255.255.0.0 gw 1.1.1.1"
           AppendIfNoSuchLine "$(admin_dev) net 10.11.0.0 netmask
255.255.0.0 gw 1.1.1.2"

           DefineClasses "newRoutes"
           AutoCreate
      }


shellcommands:
   static_routes.newRoutes::
      "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes $(admin_dev)"











> One example:
>    
>    We have a bunch of web servers that connect to a farm of database servers
> on the same private subnet, and the connection goes through a load balancer.
> The database servers need a static route set for each web server pointing to
> the load balancer, so the web server will get the reply back from the same
> IP it sent the request to (the load balancer).
>    When we add a new web server, we need to add a route to each database
> server.  Using "AppendIfNoSuchLine" works fine for adding to the init
> script, but we also need to run a shellcomand one-time-only to add the
> route now instead of on the next reboot (which is probably many months
> from now).
> 
> 
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