Add a new machine
In this section, you will see:
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In the demo platform, you have two nodes:
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The
server
we already used -
A
node
machine
If you used Vagrant to create the platform, it has provisoned the node by:
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installing rudder-agent
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configuring agent in defining Rudder server’s ip with
$ rudder agent policy-server <rudder-server_ip>
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sending to Rudder server node’s inventory with
$ rudder agent inventory
An inventory contains hardware and software information about a node. It is sent to register the node to the server after agent installation, and then gets updated daily (during the night, at a random time). You can manually trigger an inventory with |
Let’s accept our node:
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go to Pending nodes
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check the displayed node
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Accept

As a configuration has already been created and applied to all nodes managed by Rudder, it will be applied directly to the newly accepted node within 5 minutes. It includes the two directives we defined before.
Let’s have a look at its inventory:
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go to Nodes. You can see two nodes displayed.
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click on your node hostname node.rudder.local
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switch to the Inventory tab
You can navigate through the tabs, to see OS, software and hardware information.
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