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The simplest way to go about this is to create a public default group in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Metadata/groups.xml</span></tt>. Example:</p> <div class="highlight-xml"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nt"><Group</span> <span class="na">profile=</span><span class="s">'true'</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">'basic'</span> <span class="na">public=</span><span class="s">'true'</span> <span class="na">default=</span><span class="s">'true'</span><span class="nt">></span> </pre></div> </div> <p>This allows clients to freely associate themselves with this group so that you will not be required to manually add them to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Metadata/clients.xml</span></tt> prior to running the client.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">Reverse DNS will need to work in order to automate the process of bootstrapping clients without first adding them to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Metadata/clients.xml</span></tt>.</p> </div> <p>There are command line options available on the client which allow you to specify the options that are normally found in the client’s <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/etc/bcfg2.conf</span></tt>:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>bcfg2 -x password -p basic -S https://bcfg2-server:6789</pre> </div> <p>The above command will add the client to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Metadata/clients.xml</span></tt> with the profile <em>basic</em>. 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