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Learning PowerShell DSC

You're reading from   Learning PowerShell DSC Automate deployment and configuration of your servers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287242
Length 272 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing PowerShell DSC FREE CHAPTER 2. DSC Architecture 3. DSC Configuration Files 4. DSC Resources 5. Pushing DSC Configurations 6. Pulling DSC Configurations 7. DSC Cross Platform Support 8. Example Scenarios

Registering target nodes with a DSC pull server

Now that the DSC pull server is set up and verified as working, we can address telling the target nodes where the DSC pull server is. We do this by configuring the LCM with the endpoint information for the DSC pull server; there isn't a self-discovery method to use.

Registering a target node using a configuration ID

Note how this is a similar DSC configuration script to any we have used so far until we get to the LocalConfigurationManager keyword. We use this keyword to configure the local LCM to operate how we want it to:

Configuration ConfigurationIDTargetNodeLCM
{
  Node $AllNodes.Where({ $_.Roles -contains 'Target'}).NodeName
  {
    LocalConfigurationManager...
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