Re: 2 Domains

[Brendan Strejcek]

Baker, Darryl wrote:

> My problem is that the machines have no other differences than a new
> domain. Same IP ranges, etc..

Then you need some other heuristic for cfagent to decide what domain a
machine is in. An IP range is just one example of such a heuristic. For
example, your OS install procedure could include touching a particular
file in /etc, which is tested for by FileExists. There are many other
ways you could differentiate those groups of machines.

Or you could do a grep on /etc/hostname (or whatever). If there is a
way that the host can figure out its domain, then there is a way that
cfagent can figure out the domain.

For example, on my debian boxes I could do:

    classes:
        cs_uchicago_edu = (
            ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '
                /bin/grep cs.uchicago.edu /etc/hostname >/dev/null 2>&1
            ')
        )

Best,
Brendan

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The University of Chicago
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