[Puppet Users] Re: Configuring hosts with data from other hosts

Sam
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:27:05 -0000

what is the right way to handle this?

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:51:31 AM UTC+1, stever...@gmail.com
wrote:
>
> So I want to use facts from one host in the configuration of other
> hosts.
> Trivial example: setting restrict lines in ntp.conf to allow a
> monitoring host to query ntpd on remote hosts.
>
> So if the monitoring host boots with IP 10.2.2.3 (which may change
> regularly), and it knows its the monitor host (via some customer
> facter plugins), I want some global variable to be available
> ($monitor_host_ipaddress, type of thing) which could be used in
> tempaltes etc for all other hosts.
>
> Exported resources seems close to what I want, but I dont want to
> export a file, and copy it to other machines. I want to use
> variables.
>
> Or do I have to copy the IP address of the monitor host to each
> machine, via an exported resource file, and then process it locally in
> an exec script to build the correct ntp.conf?
> That doesn''t seem very puppet-ish...
>
> Help?
> T.I.A.
>
>

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