Thanks for this. I've stopping using the tagmail report and I'll modify that script to give me latest applied changes and the servers they were applied to and maybe checking times/frequency for all servers over some period.
Neil Greg wrote: > Neil, > > I had a similar problem back when I was running 0.24.7 and 0.24.8 on > Solaris. My solution was to remove tagmail completely and put in a > seperate system that parsed the YAML reports and send a single email > combining all changes during a given period of time (in my case - > daily). Required a little coding, but its not too difficult. Then just > schedule it to run from cron on each of your master servers that > receive reports from clients. > > To be honest, tagmail isn't that useful outside of running it on a few > hosts... I personally don't want to receive 100+ emails every time I > changed an entry that was common to every node... This way I receive > one email in a summarised format - if I need more detail there is > always the messages file on the node itself, or you can optionally > keep the reports for a few days... Just remember to set up a tidy on > the reports directory if you do that... (Oh, and if you set up a tidy > on the reports directory, you may want to bear in mind Bug 2701: > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2701) > > The base of the code is something like: > > require "puppet" > require "yaml" > require "find" > Puppet[:config] = "/etc/puppet/puppet.conf" > Puppet.parse_config > Puppet[:name] = "puppetmasterd" > Puppet::Node::Facts.terminus_class = :yaml > File.find("/var/puppet/reports") do | report | > next if FileTest.directory?(report) > thisreport = open(report) { |fh| YAML::load(fh) } > print "Host: " + thisreport.host > reporttime = File.stat(report).mtime.to_i # seconds since epoch... > thisreport.logs.each do |log| > # Whatever you want to find out about each message... > end > File.unlink(report) # If you don't need them anymore... > end > > On Dec 7, 10:33 am, Neil Prockter <n.prock...@lse.ac.uk> wrote: >> Evening All, >> >> I've been getting a random number of copies of report mails, the same >> report sent multiple times at the same second, and finally got tired >> enough of it to look into it. >> >> They are sent from puppet rather than a mail server issue. >> >> I get one extra copy every time the client gets a "warning: Other end >> went away; restarting connection and retrying". >> >> Updating the server from 0.24.8 to 0.25.1 did not improve matters. >> >> Running with client 0.24.5 debug ends with >> >> debug: Calling puppetreports.report >> warning: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying >> warning: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying >> info: Sent transaction report in 3.29 seconds >> notice: Finished catalog run in 11.40 seconds >> >> upgrading the client to 0.24.8 client debug ends with >> >> debug: Calling puppetreports.report >> info: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying >> info: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying >> info: Sent transaction report in 3.66 seconds >> notice: Finished catalog run in 12.61 seconds >> >> so the level has been reduced to info but I still get the multiple >> report mails >> >> updating to 0.25.1 seems to deal with the repeated mails though I see >> >> err: Reporting failed: end of file reached >> >> Updating clients to 0.25.1 across the board is probably not an option >> for me so I'd like to fix the reporting from a server side if possible. >> >> My tagmail.conf is just >> all: an-addr...@that.goes.to.me >> >> Neil >> >> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic >> communications >> disclaimer:http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
