Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: beginners headache Author: sebastian Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17928,17950#msg-17950
JarleB, thank you very much for your detailed answer. I can see a little clearer now. The background of my fourth question are mainly security concerns. All configurations on every server is not a suitable way for me. Therefore i need to write a class (class_def.cf), that contains defintions of all others classes, using "copy_from" anyhow, so that only the reasonable configurations will be provided. The real configuration- process can then follow in a second step on every host. To my questions 5 and 6: Even if i will let of my "control-fetishism", in the role of an administrator i can't imagine that there won't be the need for a "planed order" anymore. For example i have to ensure that additional devices are configured first and then the database-configuration can proceed (question 5). If i write everything in one class, that won't be a problem. But maybe i have more then 20 classes, that will apply to one server. cfegine will really capture all necessary dependencies for me? My question 6 is related to something similar. I have to consider "inter-host-dependencies" too. I need to execute sql-statements prior to deploy the jar-files on the webserver. Or i just want to execute some changes only on a few of servers that is members of a specific class. I will first go on with some smaller configurations and certainly some things will become clearer with more practice then. I have an idea, how to start now. Thank you very much Sebastian _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
