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Re: Way to have cfengine not run when not on company network


From: Iain Morgan
Subject: Re: Way to have cfengine not run when not on company network
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed Sep 29 21:01:24 2004, Chris Kacoroski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have cfengine running on several laptops.  When these machines are 
> taken home and plugged into home DSL lines, cfengine runs and they 
> attempt to contact the server which fails.  I then get error messages of 
> all the failures.  Any ideas on how to either (1) turn off the error 
> messages when the machine is not on the company network or (2) have 
> cfengine not connect to the server if it is not on the company internal 
> network.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> ski
> 

We address this issue by defining a class when the laptop is in one of the
IP address blocks we deal with. All copy stanzas rely upon that class being
defined. It's a little annoying but it works.

--
Iain Morgan
NAS Desktop Support Group



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