Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: question on bundle sequence vs. ifelapsed Author: bglomm Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19154,19193#msg-19193
Thnx Neil! hm, and there are no technical reasons like "more than 10 promises on the same file and it stumbles!" ? In our setup here I will manage about 20 max 30 server, most of them virtualized and for the next time running more or less standard services. Still they needed contious management and monitoring revoking accounts, resetting passwords, adjusting the desired threshold values of nagios etc. Using "fai" I can install any software profile, using cfengine I can configure the "zoo". The fai part tells us what packages will be initial installed. The cfengine scripts (in my approach) tells us ALL about the configuration. And once one is familiar with the concept... come on it IS quite easy to read... look at my example above... I mean... one can read it from the top to the bottom and knowing EVERYTHING... no need to look in other directorys, into other files ... The next admin could just print out the handfull of cfengine files and read them over the weekend... Than he should know ;-) Using comments for explanation WHY I do (what) would help understand the conceptual intention. The rest is just regex. Isn't it. I was so enthusiastic ;-) about having ALL the configuration in a small bunch of plain text files in one directory with a clear sequence how to read them... But if the setup gets much bigger (several hundreds of, even very different, nodes) I see that the template approach you describe above would save a lot of code (and nervs ;-). So, once again... is there a technical reason to not use multiple promises like I do in the example above or is it more a question of "style"??? (After that I _promise_ to close this discussion on style ;-)) TIA _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
