predefine probes and maximum lenght of vcl.inline configs

[Gerhard Schmidt]

Hi,

we a running varnish as reversproxy for our university portal. We've 19
backendservers each running 4 Zope processes. So we have 76 backends.
so defining for each of this backends a probe is quite a job, not to mention
changing some settings.

Is there a way to define probs once and reuse them in the backend definitions.
I've tried

probe portal {...} and use it via .probe = portal; compiling failes at probe
portal.

<---- snip ---->
Message from VCC-compiler:
Expected one of
        'acl', 'sub', 'backend',  or 'director'
Found: 'probe' at
(input Line 1 Pos 1)
probe portal {
#####---------
Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1
VCL compilation failed
<---- snip ---->

The problem increases because we update the config via vcl.inline over the cli
interface and there seam to be a maximum length for the config.
defining the probe only once would reduce the config size greatly.

Kind regard,
Estartu


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