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Re: Querying clients
From: |
PAUL WILLIAMSON |
Subject: |
Re: Querying clients |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:54:02 -0500 |
>>> "Alexander Jolk" <alexj@buf.com> 12/09/05 9:12 AM >>>
> Steve Wray wrote:
> > It is still useful to be able to collect data on the existing state
of a
> > machine and pass that back to the cfengine server. I can think of
*lots*
> > of reasons one might want to do this.
>
> I'm doing this for two purposes: lspci and dmidecode. That way, I
> always have an up-to-date inventory of all my machines on the
cfengine
> server, in case I need to quickly find a serial number or a specific
> model of graphics card for example.
>
> What I'm doing is I have every machine generate its files into
> /var/cfengine/collect/$(hostname).pci, and then copy this whole
> directory to the server. In order to limit the load on the server,
I'm
> staging the copy over a tree structure in fact, the server copies
from
> five machines that in turn, copy from five others each, and so on.
>
> I'm using the same mechanism to send my local ssh host keys to the
> server, where I construct a known_hosts file to distribute, all
entirely
> automated.
I do the configuration generation via cfg2html and have cfengine
pick those up and put them into a directory structure on the
cfengine master server. Extrememly useful for all sorts of things,
even when jumpstarting a server or replicating servers.
Paul
- Re: Querying clients, (continued)
RE: Querying clients, Martin, Jason H, 2005/12/08
RE: Querying clients, David Masterson, 2005/12/08
RE: Querying clients, francois . vanderpoorte, 2005/12/09
Re: Querying clients,
PAUL WILLIAMSON <=
RE: Querying clients, Martin, Jason H, 2005/12/13
RE: Querying clients, Martin, Jason H, 2005/12/13
Re: Querying clients, bern, 2005/12/20