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authorFabian Affolter <fabian@bernewireless.net>2010-12-12 16:29:36 +0100
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The Bcfg2 Server
================
+The Bcfg2 server is responsible for taking a network description and
+turning it into a series of configuration specifications for particular
+clients. It also manages probed data and tracks statistics for clients.
+
+The Bcfg2 server takes information from two sources when generating client
+configuration specifications. The first is a pool of metadata that describes
+clients as members of an aspect-based classing system. That is, clients are
+defined in terms of aspects of their behavior. The other is a file system
+repository that contains mappings from metadata to literal configuration.
+These are combined to form the literal configuration specifications for
+clients.
+
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