Re: Error when executing cfagent

[Harish Chauhan]

Hi,

Sorry, here is the full scenerio we
are trying to test 

Setup  :
We got 300 machines divided into various
groups. i.e Developer group, Engineering group, IS group, etc . Each group
gets different configuration files through defined cron jobs. Presently
the distribution of binaries, rpms, etc is done using multi-tier architecture
means the main server distributes the files to the underlying 10 machines
and then these 10 machines distibutes the files to remaining 289 machines.


Objective : 
We need to replace the above architecture
using CFengine but at the same time we also make sure that network is not
fully occupied. We want to have control on the number of machines getting
the updates/files. Also, machines cannot be differentiated on IP basis.
There are machines falling under different groups in the same IP range.

Note :  The group under which a
machine lies is read by the utility from a flat file.

Requirement : 
How our configuration files should look
like and how can we execute different tasks on different set of machines.



Package version in use : BerkeleyDB
3.3.11, OpenSSL 0.9.6e and CFengine2.1.3


Machine SERVER_1 : Complete installation
of all the packages mentioned above
Services running : cfexecd and cfservd
/data folder exported for CLIENT machine
/data/cfrun.hosts has CLIENT_2 to CLIENT_289
names listed


Machine CLIENT_2 - CLIENT_289 : Complete
installation of all the packages mentioned above
Services running : cfexecd 
Mounted /data folder from SERVER_1
/opt/cfengine/ppkeys/root-SERVER_1.pub
has public key available



Please feel free if any other information
is required. Looking forward to your reply. 

Thanks in advance.....

Regards, Harish Chauhan

John Sechrest <sechrest@peak.org> 02/19/2004 05:00 PM

To:        Harish Chauhan/India/IBM@IBMIN         cc:                 Subject:        Re: Error when executing cfagent

We certainly will need to have more information that this.

What system are you running on?
What version of cfengine are you running?

Exactly, what steps did you take to set it up?

What exactly does the error say?

without this kind of information (and much more) you will not
be able to get any kind of help.



Harish Chauhan <Harish_Chauhan@in.ibm.com> writes:

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