Re: [Fwd: Re: ${clientip} ?]

[Tod Oace]

> (Dang, I don't understand lists that don't set the reply-to field to go
> to the list.  To me, that's the whole point of a list, the discussion,
> not to get private answers to questions, unless appropriate for some
> reason...)

Oh, and that case here's my reply to the list:

> From: Ed Brown <ebrown@lanl.gov>
> Date: October 21, 2004 14:56:55 PDT
> To: Tod Oace <tod.r.oace@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: ${clientip} ?
>
>
> Where I get stuck right away when considering something like this is 
> the
> question of how to get information from the client to the server.  It's
> backwards to the normal flow of cfengine.  Did you already have a
> mechanism for this in mind?

Yeah... A Cfengine method call. There's even an example in the 
reference manual passing the first part of /etc/passwd:

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#methods

search for: ReadFile("/etc/passwd"

So I *think* that takes care of the communication mechanism. I'm toying 
with it now. But I'm also thinking about the step after that.  -Tod


> -Ed
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 15:41, Tod Oace wrote:
> > I'm hoping to create a method to collect small bits of information 
> > from
> > systems onto my cfengine servers. It seems like this will work fine 
> > but
> > I'd also like to prevent systems from being able to clobber each
> > others' bits of information.
> >
> > I think what I want is to stash information into files named
> > .../somedirectory/${clientip}/${infotype} where ${infotype} comes from
> > the client and ${clientip} is defined on the server end. But I'm 
> > unable
> > to find a variable like ${clientip}. I see forcereplyto but that's
> > defined by the client.
> >
> > I would like this in order to collect and analyze files before I put
> > them under central cfengine control. I don't really need information
> > sandboxes for that kind of temporary information, but there is some
> > other system information I would like to protectection for. Stuff
> > defined on the systems that I want persistent across system builds. 
> > Any
> > ideas?
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