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Re: [hobbit] Question about CLASS= & classname
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Question about CLASS= & classname
- From: henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:25:36 +0200
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Hi Steve,
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:52:12AM -0400, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:
> Per the hobbit-clients.cfg documentation I read the following:
> CLASS=classname Rule match by the client class-name. You specify
> the class-name for a host when starting the client through the
> "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is
> specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the
> operating system.
>
> My questions:
> The default classname setting of the operating system, which value is it ?
It's the value of $BBOSTYPE which gets setup by the Hobbit client
environment. It's basically defined at compile-time. There's a list of
the OS names near the beginning of the lib/misc.c file in the Hobbit
source; I should probably document that somewhere.
> Can regular expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ?
Yes.
> Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e.
> 1.2.3.4 serverName # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer
No.
> If a host can have more than one class definition, what happens when you
> get CLASS configuration parameter collision ?
That's why one host cannot belong to more than one class.
Regards,
Henrik