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Configuration - Host Templates

These config-files simply hold the same kind of lines as a host config-file. By adding a line like:

	template some-host-template

to a host config-file, you achieve the same effect as adding all the lines contained within the template file. If you have many hosts which are similar, this can be a usefull way of keeping the configuration consistent.

It can also be used to parameterize things. As an example, if you are using the nt-status-server and are only running it on a single host which is providing information on various other NT hosts, you might make a template, say default-nt-status-server like:

	nt-status-server my.nt.status.server

and replace the nt-status-server lines in those hosts with:

	template default-nt-status-server

Then if you want to change which machine is running the nt-status-server, you'd just have to change the template.


Last updated Tue Apr 16 19:09:18 PDT 2002 by <thomas.erskine@sourceworks.com>.
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