Re: [Puppet Users] Creating Subgroups in Puppet Dashboard

[Calvin Walton]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 02:06 -0700, Praveen Shivashankar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a feasibility for creating subgroups on the Puppet Dashboard?
> Basically the requirement is that we have a huge number of VMs running
> designated services. Some of VMs having the same service may yet have
> different properties configured on them. We are exploring the feasibility
> of having these properties managed through puppet. Currently all these VMs
> are put into a single group on the Puppet Dashboard and have global
> properties configured on the dashboard.
>
> Can I create a subgroup among these, and configure separate properties so
> that when the Agent contacts the master, based on the subgroup it belongs
> the corresponding property values are picked up (or else the default
> entries are retained)???

Yes, you can. It's quite simple:

Create a new group for your sub-group, then in the "Groups" field, enter
the name of the parent group.

The new subgroup then inherits all of the properties and classes from
the parent group, and you can override properties by entering new values
for them in the subgroup.

You can also override individual properties by setting them on the node
directly, in case you have a one-off situation.

--
Calvin Walton
Blindside Networks http://www.blindsidenetworks.com/

[Praveen Shivashankar]

@Calvin:

 

Thanks for the inputs. I had infact fixed it a few days ago.  I created a new group and inherited the parent class into it. After that I defined a parameter with the same name as was in the "All Nodes" section and over rid the value in this new group. Now all the nodes added to the group use the new value and the older value defined earlier has sort of become default in nature, if nothing is specified.

 

- Praveen