feature request

[Brendan Strejcek]

Many of my servers have an arbitrary host name and a meaningful DNS
alias service name. It is impractical for cfagent to figure out all the
aliases that map back to a particular hostname, but checking a single
DNS alias should not be bad.

I would like something like this (maybe with a better function name):

    classes:
        loghost_dns_alias = ( DNSAlias(loghost) )

Currently I use nasty code like this:

    shellcommands:
        any::
            # Figure out if I am the loghost.
            "/bin/test `hostname` = `host loghost|perl 
-e'${dollar}_=<>;s/.*alias for (.*)\./${dollar}1/;print'`"
                define=loghost
        loghost:: 
            "/do/stuff"

Just an idea.

Or if anyone has a better idea for how to accomplish the same thing...

Best,
Brendan

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Senior System Administrator
The University of Chicago
Department of Computer Science
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