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Questions tagged [hierarchy]

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How to symlink folders and exclude certain files

I'm not a server guru (unfortunately) but have a decent knowledge of linux & bsd. I'm trying to symlink multiple instances of HLDS (game server) but need to exclude certain folders & config files to achieve this properly. I need to do it this way as…
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Nagios child/parent relationship for host that is reachable by multiple paths?

Consider the following network setup below: Further, assume that Switch 1 and 2 are managed switches, but only have an IP address assigned on vlan3. How would you set up the parent/child tree for a setup like this? If switch 1 or 2 goes down,…
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Different hiera hierarchy per dynamic environment

Is it possible to define a separate hiera.yaml for a given environment? Currently I am using dynamic environments. Each one has its own hiera data directory, per my hiera.yaml file. :yaml: :datadir: /var/lib/hiera/%{environment} One drawback…
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What SCCM roles should I install on my secondary sites?

In the company I'm currently working, we'd like to install System Center Configuration Manager to automaticly deploy Windows 7 images and software. I have been conducting some research on installing, configuring and running SCCM in a closed…
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Storing users in Active Directory in hierarchical manner

Is it possible to define all users in Active Directory so they are also hierarchically related between each other? In other words: Is it possible to define managers from top of my firm and all the way to the bottom users that don't manage…
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Where is the best location to keep shared-developer website files in the linux hierarchy?

Serving html and php files I just started hosting files for a website on my server, and I'm not sure where is an appropriate place to keep them to provide access for multiple users. When I started hosting the site, I put the site files in:…
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Hiera lookup of datasource failing on new node

I'm trying to set up a new node using puppet, but it fails with an error that leads me to believe that hiera isn't finding the correct datasource: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, undefined method `empty?' for…
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converting node inheritance to hiera

I'm working on moving over a node inheritance tree to hiera. Presently working on the hierarchy. Prior to hiera, my nodes had a hierarchy as such base pre-prod qa nodes staging nodes development nodes prod …
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Hiera can't find puppet environment

I'm testing out hiera and hitting a snag on the hierarchy configuration. What I have is extremely simple, the part that isn't working is specification of hiera datadir files based on environment. Here's the config file (/etc/hiera.yaml) I'm…
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How to return default hash keys in hiera_hash() call?

In an attempt to clean up my client's Hiera data for Puppet, and drastically reduce the number of Hiera calls in the Puppet manifests, I'm changing constructs like some_name::key1: a_value_1 some_name::key2: a_value_2 [...] some_name::keyX:…
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Configuring Reverse DNS for an emulated DNS server hierarchy using BIND

I'm emulating a network using Kathara (similar to Netkit) and I'm having trouble figuring out how to get reverse DNS to work across all three networks. This is the topology And this is the DNS hierarchy I did manage to get recursive lookup to work.…
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Network hierarchy with subnets

Is it possible to divide networks with subnets so that they intersect? My example is: Network A: only visible inside network A Network B: only visible inside network B Network C: visible from both networks? Can this be achieved with subnets or do…
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