Alright, I am working on deploying my hobbit clients. Before doing that, I would like to nail down the clientupdate framework for my clients. So I am doing some initial testing, and have gotten to the point where I need to update the client-local.cfg.

Now in reading the client-local.cfg, sections are configured by either OS definition or hostname. Hostname really isn't an option for me, that would client-local.cfg huge and unruly to edit. Ideally some form of group definition is preferred. But OS definition includes a massive group and my Redhat3 & RedHat4 servers seem to lumped into the 'linux' OS group. If I configure the client to have a custom OS definition, the client reports will go purple since the Hobbit server does not recognize the custom OS definition.

Questions:

1. Am I just be overly cautious by compiling a hobbit client for each and every OS flavor I have ? i.e. rh2.1, rh3, rh4, rh4x64, sun8, sun10, etc ? Would one generic linux & sun compile be all I really need ?

2. Is there any way to get more refined group definitions in client-local.cfg ? I guess the only other solution would be have it honor the CLASS= definition. But presently Sections by class are ignore. So is this something that will be added, or am I missing something ?

3. The reason I ask question 2, is that I was thinking of having multiple client tars. For example a standard RH4 tar, and possibly a specialized RH4 client tailored for Database servers. Now there really wouldn't be any difference between these tars in regards to hobbit client binaries, but configuration & ext scripts. Ideally I would like an automated way to push our updated Hobbit clients & ext scripts. Should I look at some other method to manage automated updates of ext scripts ?

Thank you for your help, ~Steve