Re: server iteration

[Alexander Jolk]

Mark Burgess wrote:
> There is a failover option in copy. Why is no one discussing that?


Correct me if I misunderstood, but failover= in copy lets me define a 
class when the copy fails, doesn't it?  So in order to re-try the copy 
from a different server, I would have to restate the same copy with the 
failover server, activated by my failover class?  Or could I do 
something along the following lines:

control:
   AllowRedefinitionOf = ( server )
   AddInstallable = ( server_fail )
   server = ( primaryhost )
   server_fail::
      server = ( failoverhost )

copy:
   $(server)/some/file dest=/some/file failover=server_fail

Would cfengine's second pass take into account the changed definition, 
or not?  That would actually be quite nice for a single layer failover 
scenario.

Alex


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