thanks Ohad and Ken, i am using foreman now, but only for logging reports, i
think i should try to restructe our config and use external node with
forman.

2011/6/20 Ken Barber <k...@puppetlabs.com>

> Do you have a lot of boxes that perform the same function? You can use
> the regex node syntax:
>
> node /^db/ {
>  include db
> }
>
> Or device some other way of extracting function out of the machine
> name. It might save you some time.
>
> Otherwise if your machines are fairly unique using ENC to configure
> that would be a good path if you are getting sick of updating your
> nodes file. Dashboard and The Foreman are two good tools to look at
> for this purpose.
>
> Ideally you want your node entries to contain only vars and classes
> for a switchover to ENC to work. Param classes aren't supported in
> either tool yet I believe.
>
> ken.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:25 AM, flex <frostyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have many modules and many nodes, every node may use different module,
> so
> > it's very unpleasant to modify the nodes.pp
> > Then i saw the external node, but seems it only support class and we have
> > many defines called in node.pp
> >
> > So here is my question: Is there another way for us to manage so many
> nodes
> > easily or should i change all the defines to classes and using external
> > nodes?
> >
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