A couple newb questions

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:35:50 -0400
Forsaken <forsaken at targaryen.us> wrote:

> Are hostgroups pretty much just a cosmetic gathering for viewing in a
> web interface, or can they serve some practical use during
> configuration.

Absolutely!

We've got a hostgroup called "debian servers" and any server in this
list automatically has the version checked to make sure there's no
weird upgrades going on etc.

It also means that when "Lenny" reaches stable, we only need to change
one config file and it immediately provides us with a report on which
servers require an upgrade.

The script at the moment is configured to be OK if
the /etc/debian_version contains the string "4.0", warn on "3.1" and
error on everything else.

This makes upgrading much much easier!

Cheers,

M. 

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