Need a way to filter action results per system target

[mozilla]

Need a way to filter action results per system target

[jvehent]

I'm confused... do you want a way to run an action on linux+ubuntu and linux+rhel separately, or a way to run the action everywhere, and then filter the results for ubuntu or rhel only?

(or both :p )

The former would be handled by the scheduler, when the target of the action is expanded. We could add the operating system family in the queueloc of the keepalive message, and simply use that, but that's ugly. I'm much rather have detailed registration messages from agents that contain a bunch of parameters we can then search against. Or, better, have support for external sources, like an inventory of nodes that could be queried by the scheduler.

The later can already be done in mongodb directly. The plan is to improve the API to provide more granular search parameters on results.

[gdestuynder]

whichever you prefer really. I need any of these solutions, just proposing the various ways to do it that I can think of.

Its probably a little bit more generic and easier to manage if you can run the action everywhere and filter the results. (that might be the confusing part of my comment, hopefully that's clearer)

[jvehent]

Well, that's the trick: I don't want to just filter on results, I'd rather filter pre-processing for performance.
This needs to spin a few more wheels in my head for a few more days. I'm sure we can find a standard way of filtering that doesn't involve a module-specific hackish syntax.

[jvehent]

I moved this to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014749