How apply a class on a set of nodes

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Hello,

At first, i'm french so sorry for my english.

I have a small problem. I installed foreman 1.3 + puppet (ENC) and 1500
nodes.

I'd like to apply a class on 1,000 nodes knowing that some nodes are
already part of a hostgroup.

With puppet-dashboard, we can associate a node has multiple hostgroup but
with foreman, we can't.
How can i apply a class on a set of hosts.

Thank you

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I defer to the experts, but in Foreman I think the feature you're looking
for is the ability to nest host groups.

HostGroup 1: Defines: class1, class2, class3; param1, param2, param3.
HostGroup 1a: Inherits class1, class2, class3; param1, param2 from
HostGroup1. Defines class4, param 4. Overrides HostGroup 1's param3.
HostGroup 1b: Inherits class1, class2, class3; param1, param3 from
HostGroup1. Defines class5, param 5. Overrides HostGroup 1's param2.

Does that help? The most basic classes and parameters would be defined at
the top level host group. Each nested group inherits from it's parent, but
you may override the inherited parameters.

Sean M. Alderman
Senior Engineer, UDit Systems Integration and Engineering
University of Dayton
salderman1@udayton.edu

"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us
is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is
loved. Each of us is necessary." - BXVI

··· On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:45 AM, billbok29 wrote:

Hello,

At first, i’m french so sorry for my english.

I have a small problem. I installed foreman 1.3 + puppet (ENC) and 1500
nodes.

I’d like to apply a class on 1,000 nodes knowing that some nodes are
already part of a hostgroup.

With puppet-dashboard, we can associate a node has multiple hostgroup but
with foreman, we can’t.
How can i apply a class on a set of hosts.

Thank you

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Thanks, it's exactly i want to…

I have another question regarding the categories. Why a host can not belong
to several categories.

example:

we have a "Linux team" that manages Redhat and debian host(category UNIX /
Linux)
we have a "Windows team" that manages the windows host(category Windows)
but we can not create a "network team" that handles all machines (Network
category)…

it might be interesting?

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> I defer to the experts, but in Foreman I think the feature you're looking
> for is the ability to nest host groups.
>

True, nevertheless, we've decided to add a Configuration Group [1], which
could do pretty much what the original author asked for… hopefully it
should be part of 1.5

Ohad

[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/1217

··· On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Sean Alderman wrote:

HostGroup 1: Defines: class1, class2, class3; param1, param2, param3.
HostGroup 1a: Inherits class1, class2, class3; param1, param2 from
HostGroup1. Defines class4, param 4. Overrides HostGroup 1’s param3.
HostGroup 1b: Inherits class1, class2, class3; param1, param3 from
HostGroup1. Defines class5, param 5. Overrides HostGroup 1’s param2.

Does that help? The most basic classes and parameters would be defined at
the top level host group. Each nested group inherits from it’s parent, but
you may override the inherited parameters.

Sean M. Alderman
Senior Engineer, UDit Systems Integration and Engineering
University of Dayton
salderman1@udayton.edu

“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us
is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is
loved. Each of us is necessary.” - BXVI

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:45 AM, billbok29 nicolas.boq@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

At first, i’m french so sorry for my english.

I have a small problem. I installed foreman 1.3 + puppet (ENC) and 1500
nodes.

I’d like to apply a class on 1,000 nodes knowing that some nodes are
already part of a hostgroup.

With puppet-dashboard, we can associate a node has multiple hostgroup but
with foreman, we can’t.
How can i apply a class on a set of hosts.

Thank you

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