On Thu, 31 May 2018, John Thurston wrote:
Gotta admit, though, the 'CLASS' attribute has never scratched an itch I have. What business problem does it solve for anyone else? I'm not trying to pick a fight. I just can't see its value and have never defined one.
In my particular use case, I use it to distinguish between windows machines and Linux machines. I have several different classes of windows machines defined such as win32, win64, e2k13, etc. that automagically select the configuration on the xymon server. I have never tried to define more than one class though.
The win-ps-client configuration file lets you define a class which makes configuration of windows machines easier when using central configuration.
If you don't do Windows then that might be why you have never used it.
Regards,
Tom