Editing Device management using Bcfg2

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One thing to like in Bcfg2 is that it does not mandate things too much. Third item is an example of that. Bcfg2 allows short-circuiting the Literal layer processing altogether by adding "Bound" in front of the keyword. In a simple cases where what we want exactly is already known already at abstract level this can simplify things.
One thing to like in Bcfg2 is that it does not mandate things too much. Third item is an example of that. Bcfg2 allows short-circuiting the Literal layer processing altogether by adding "Bound" in front of the keyword. In a simple cases where what we want exactly is already known already at abstract level this can simplify things.
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=== Hooking the Device and Bcfg2 server together ===
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=== Hooking the Device and Bcfg2 together ===
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At server, add following line into <code>/var/lib/bcfg2/Metadata/clients.xml</code>
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Add following line into <code>/var/lib/bcfg2/Metadata/clients.xml</code>
  <Client uuid="foo" name="bar" profile="maemo" password="xyzzy" pingable="N" location="floating" auth="cert+password"/>
  <Client uuid="foo" name="bar" profile="maemo" password="xyzzy" pingable="N" location="floating" auth="cert+password"/>
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  bcfg2 -I
  bcfg2 -I
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You should now be prompted a confirmation for three configuration item defined in the sample configuration, due to use of <code>-I</code> option.
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You should see a confirmation prompt for each configuration item defined in the samole configuration, due to use of <code>-I</code> option.
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