Once you have selected and organized your Techniques, you can create your configurations in the Configuration Management > Directives section.
- Directive
- This is an instance of a Technique, which allows to set values for the parameters of the latter. Each Directive can have a unique name. A Directive should be completed with a short and a long description, and a collection of parameters for the variables defined by the Technique.
The screen is divided in three parts:
- on the left, your list of Techniques and Directives,
- on the right the description of the selected Technique or Directive.
- at the bottom, the configuration items of the selected Directive.
Click on the name of a Technique to show its description.
Click on the name of a Directive to see the Directive Summary containing the description of the Technique its derived from, and the configuration items of the Directive.
Example 8. Create a Directive for Name resolution
Use the Technique Name resolution to create a new Directive called
Google DNS Servers
, and shortly described as Use Google DNS Server. Check in
the options Set nameservers and Set DNS search suffix. Set the value of the
variable DNS resolver to 8.8.8.8
and of Domain search suffix according to
your organization, like rudder-project.org
.