Re: Limiting number of machines

[tigger]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:46:59PM +1100, Frank Ranner wrote:
> Harish Chauhan wrote:
> 
> >How can I limit the number of machines (Range of IP addresses / subnet) 
> >getting the files from a server at any point of time so that our network 
> >doesn't get flooded with the request coming all at one time.  I mean 
> >when the system is doing activites based on daily cron jobs. There has 
> >to be some mechanism that lets me specify the range getting the update 
> >and then the next range, etc
> 
> Divide your machines into groups:
> 
> group1 = ( ws20 ws21 ws22 )
> group2 = ( ws23 ws24 ws25 )

Or use SplayTime: http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html

Regards,

Rob

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