Hi,
general: it would be nice if you could also send logoutput.
On 05/03/2011 08:34 AM, Giovanni Bordello wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to get my head around conditionals and variables.
>
> What I'm trying to do now is to distinguish between puppet servers and
> puppet clients and deliver some settings differently. How can I do that?
>
> I tried to put a variable in the node classes:
>
> node 'puppet1' {
> $puppetmode = "master",
> include puppetmasterclass
> }
> node 'client1' {
> $puppetmode = "client",
> include puppetclientclass
> }
I would not use the colon on the line with the key value pair.
>
> and then in the classes do something like:
>
> case $puppetmode {
> "master": {
> $baseurl_base = "file:///puppet/repos"
> }
> "client": {
> $baseurl_base = "http://puppet1/inst";
> }
> }
> class system::repos {
> yumrepo { 'RHEL-5.5-64':
> descr => 'RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit',
> baseurl => "${baseurl_base}/RHEL-5.5-x86_64/Server",
> }
> }
>
> But that doesn't work. Another attempt was to do the "case" statement by
> hostname wildcard:
>
> case $hostname {
> "puppet*" {
> $baseurl_base = "..."
> }
> }
using regexp requires another syntax for the hostname:
/^puppet*$/ instead of "puppet*"
>
> but that didn't work either.
>
> It's not only about puppet master/client. I will have to know in some
> modules in which datacentre a given node is, etc. So was hoping to be
> able to set a couple of parameters in the node declaration and then work
> with that in the modules.
>
> Can I somehow pass variables or other tokens around the catalogue and
> make conditional decisions in other modules based on them?
>
> I'm sure this is something trivial but can't figure out how to do that.
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> GiBo
>
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