Re: [Puppet Users] Re: howto trigger action on another client

Andreas Kuntzagk
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:18:00 -0000

Daniel Maher wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 03:39 PM, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote:
>
>>> Exported resources are the Puppet means for one node to provide
>>> resources for another. In this case, the execution host could
export
>>> an Exec resource for the master to collect and apply.
>>
>> Hmm, in the (very short) time I''ve been working with puppet I
have not
>> stumbled across exported resources. Any pointer where I should start
>> reading?
>
> Exported resources are great fun. :)
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Stored_Configuration

According to these exported resources are somewhat similar to virtual resources.
Problem is until now I cannot wrap my brain arount virtual resources so I
don''t
understand the exported resources examples.

regards, Andreas