Hello ,
How to create the affiliation fixlets(advertisement and seek list) based on the IP range/Subnet address.
Thanks
For affiliation seek, you can do something like this:
// Location A
if {(exists ip interface whose (address of it as string contains “10.x.y.”) of network)}
setting “_BESClient_Register_Affiliation_SeekList”=“LocationA;centralrelay;failover;*” on “{now}” for client
// Location B
elseif {(exists ip interface whose (address of it as string contains “10.x.z.”) of network)}
setting “_BESClient_Register_Affiliation_SeekList”=“LocationB;centralrelay;failover;*” on “{now}” for client
// Add more locations …
endif
Add relevance something like:
((exists ip interface whose (address of it as string contains “10.x.y.”) of network) AND (exists setting “_BESClient_Register_Affiliation_SeekList” whose (value of it does not contain ((“LocationA”) as string)) of client)) etc, etc, for all locations
Put that into policy action on your clients allowing it to re-apply when relevant. Then as a laptop changes subnets/locations, it will automatically change relays.
On your relays, set the “_BESRelay_Register_Affiliation_AdvertisementList” to include the location name such as ‘LocationA’ in my example. This could be done manually on a few relays or be its own task for a larger environment.
setting “_BESRelay_Register_Affiliation_AdvertisementList”=“LocationA;*” on “{now}” for client
Optionally, set up central or top level relays and/or failover relays at your main location.
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Hello There ,
Thank you for the response ,
Earlier we are using the Hostname for affiliation criteria and now i wanted to use IP address range.
Do you mind writing a relevance and action script just for an example to make the things clear to me.
Lets say Ip range is 10.x.x-- 10.x.y so in that case what would be the relevance and action script for advertisement and what would be for seek.
Appreciate your help!
Here’s a relevance statement that looks at the first 3 octets of the client’s IP addresses that can help get you started. You can get more Network relevance sample details on the developer site.
/* ----- Network A ----- /
if (exists address whose(it as string starts with “10.10.1” or it as string starts with “192.168.1”) of ip interfaces whose (loopback of it = false) of network) then “NetworkA”
/ ----- Network B ----- /
else (if (exists address whose(it as string starts with “10.10.2” or it as string starts with “192.168.2”) of ip interfaces whose (loopback of it = false) of network) then “NetworkB”
/ ----- Network C ----- /
else (if (exists address whose(it as string starts with “10.10.3” or it as string starts with “192.168.3”) of ip interfaces whose (loopback of it = false) of network) then “NetworkC”
/ ----- Network D ----- /
else (if (exists address whose(it as string starts with “10.10.4” or it as string starts with “192.168.4”) of ip interfaces whose (loopback of it = false) of network) then “NetworkD”
/ ----- Undefined ----- */
else “Undefined”))))))
You can leverage substitution relevance within ActionScript in order to set the AdvertismentList and SeekList on your relays and clients respectively.
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