Question about CLASS= & classname

[Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant)]

Was just curious if anyone had any information, or docs I missed that
details CLASS= more.

Thanks,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) 
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
> Subject: Question about CLASS= & classname
> 
> 
> 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 ? When I look at the client data of a host I see 
> the following:
>    [uname]
>    Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686
>    [osversion]
>    Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
> 
> Is the default value of classname set to [uname] or 
> [osversion]. Also is it the full name ? If so do I define my 
> CLASS="Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686" ? Can regular 
> expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ?
> 
> Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e.
>    1.2.3.4   serverName   # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer
> 
> If a host can have more than one class definition, what 
> happens when you get CLASS configuration parameter collision ?
> 
> Also, it may bee helpful to have the Info report show which 
> class the device falls under.
> 
> Thank you,
>   Steve
>