I have multiple server names that I need to use in a switch statement, but I don’t want to hardcode the values of the server names incase they change, or I need to load the software on a new server. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated?
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I have multiple server names that I need to use in a switch statement, but I don’t want to hardcode the values of the server names incase they change, or I need to load the software on a new server. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated?
Well, it certainly sounds like you need to load them from a configuration file of some kind (or have them passed in on a command line) – but if you don’t know the names ahead of time, what would you actually want to switch on?
Consider what your real goal is – are you trying to take different actions for production servers versus test servers, for example? Work out how you want to group the servers, and then you’ll have more of an idea about what information you’ll need to express in the configuration file.