Seva, handles only work "out of the box" in the commercial Cfengine Nova, where they are used track such dependencies in a global self-healing knowledge map. You can also use them to refer to promises for debugging purposes, but these are commercial features.
Mark fo...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: any good examples of "handle" usage? > Author: Seva Gluschenko > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17154,17154#msg-17154 > > Hello everybody, > > > A promise handle is like a ‘goto’ label. It allows you to refer to a promise > as the promisee of depends_on client of another promise. Handles are > essential for mapping dependencies and performing impact analyses. > > > Unfortunately, the examples provided in /usr/local/share/doc/cfengine only > list connection between a client's promise and server access rules. There is > no example of a dependency of one promise on another. Could anybody be so > kind to share one? > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
