Re: cfengine with multiple configurations

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Abiad Chris-Y18180 wrote:
>1. The ability to change between multiple configurations (likely named ones) 
>for a single host

I think it can, by naming the class at runtime on the command line:

    cfengine -Dconf1

and later

    cfengine -Dconf2

>2. The ability to query the collection of servers and determine the current 
>state (whether it's one of the named configs or a temporary/customized config)

Querying the entire system and comparing that against the configuration
inputs is a hard problem :-)  You could take snapshots of the server and run
cfengine against the snapshot for each configuration and test to see how
much changed, then take the minimum.  That also sounds tedious :-)

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