Hi, Ah, I understand now.
Yes, then for an administrator to perform bulk updates (or even mirroring), this would work. Thanx for clarifying. Sundar Yamunachari spake thusly, on or about 08/17/09 15:21: > Jon Aimone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So everyone in my group who currently adds manifests custom to a >> specific machine (of which we have several hundred) will have to >> export the entire service configuration (which includes every >> machine), modify it (only the part that applies to their machine), >> and import again? Seem dangerous and not very practical. > Jon, > > Adding manifests with criteria from a file is an additional feature > to help administrators to setup multiple manifests at once. If your > environment requires manifest setup per machine, you can use > create-client (with specific manifest) to setup individual systems. > Loading manifests from a file is not the only way to add manifests to > a service. > > - Sundar >> >> >> Peter Tribble spake thusly, on or about 08/17/09 13:23: >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Sundar >>> Yamunachari<sundar.yamunachari at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have updated the proposal to simplify AI manifests with the >>>> following >>>> changes: >>>> >>>> - The installadm interfaces for new subcommands and changes to the >>>> existing subcommands are finalized (Thanks to Frank and Ethan) >>>> - Changes based on the feedback to the previous proposal >>>> The document is at >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/manifest_simplification_proposal_v3. >>>> >>>> >>>> Your feedback is requested. >>>> >>> >>> I like the syntax >>> >>> # installadm add-manifest -n <my_service> -f <manifest_input_file> >>> >>> In fact, that's about the only way I can see myself managing >>> an AI server. >>> >>> Two things would make this even easier: >>> >>> # installadm export -n <my_service> >>> >>> which would simply spit out the manifest_input_file corresponding >>> to the current configuration, and >>> >>> # installadm import -n <my_service> -f <manifest_input_file> >>> >>> which would simply replace the entire configuration with the >>> new one. So basically, to update I would export, modify, and >>> stick it back. To replicate, just export on one server and import >>> somewhere else. >>> >>> To my mind, the manifest_input_file is the primary object; all the >>> other (add-manifest, remove-manifest, update-criteria) subcommands >>> are just ways to manipulate subsections of that object. >>> >>> >> > -- ~~~\0/~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jon_Aimone.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090817/a5653631/attachment.vcf>
