Can a client belong to more than 1 class (defined in the hosts.cfg file)?
CLASS=db,clientA,windows,etc
I am guessing the answer is no but figured I would ask.
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On 5/31/2018 4:32 AM, Rothlisberger, John R. wrote:
Can a client belong to more than 1 class (defined in the hosts.cfg file)?
CLASS=db,clientA,windows,etc
Since the man file is pretty good about identifying tags which accept multiple values: NOCOLUMNS:column[,column] and CLASS is documented as accepting only a single value CLASS:Classname and there is no mention in the text it can accept multiple values and there is a mention in the text that values defined in hosts.cfg override that reported by the client (not appended)
I am guessing the answer is no but figured I would ask.
I'm gonna agree with ya'.
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.
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John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska
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
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