Re: [Puppet Users] Definitions in External Nodes

Alan Sparks
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:35:16 -0000

On 8/30/2010 9:44 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> This is much clearer now.
>
> Can you not solve this problem with extlookup now rather than having
> to write custom functions?  Either key the relevant data off a base
> variable, or set the key to lookup info for in the external node
> provider?
>
> I like this approach because it keeps the data and the model nicely
> separated, rather than whacking data into the external node provider.
>

If the extlookup() function supported other than just CSV files now, it
would be more attractive.  My instance, most of this information has to
be derived in the external node classifier, this would entail some sort
of periodic extraction to generate the extra data source.  Besides,
isn''t the node classifier intended to provide the driving data (e.g.,
parameters) for the models?  As well as calling out the nodes classes?
-Alan