Re: Querying clients

[Marco van Beek]

Hi,

I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle. The client checks 
its own file contents, and then decides what to do. This could be to add 
it to a class so that another action can be performed, or as a direct 
action, with editfiles, or a combination of both.

I found it took a while to get my head around cfengine, as you never 
really know the state the client is in before you start. In fact, the 
best way I found of understanding what I needed to do was to define the 
end state and work backwards, rather than the other way around.

Regards,

Marco

bern wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to query clients from a cfengine server?   What I would
> like to be able to do, is to query clients to know about specific
> configurations of their systems.  For example, before I take any
> actions on a client, I might like to know the content of a file before
> trying to do modification to it.
>
> I feel lile shooting in the dark when using cfengine without knowing
> the exact state of a system.
>
> Thanks,
> Bern
>
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