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authorNarayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov>2004-08-12 19:21:39 +0000
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+1. Client Metadata
+
+Clients are differentiated in terms of several types of
+metadata. These types (from least to most specific) are:
+
+- image : the binary compatibility domain of the machine (like
+ debian-3.1 or redhat-7.3)
+- classes : a host can belong to multiple classes. Classes are used to
+ derive the set of software to install on a particular client.
+- bundles: bundles are a sets of related bits of
+ configuration. Generally, each bundle provides some piece of
+ discrete functionality.
+- attributes : attributes can be used to further differentiate
+ bundles, or client configurations and are bundle scoped. A host
+ may have the webserver.ssl attribute if it is supposed to provide
+ ssl/https services in addition to normal port 80 http service.
+- hostname : this is kind of obvious \ No newline at end of file