Thanks Dan, I'll take a look at this and see if it needs adjusting.
I've just been told that there is an RSS feed for versions that I can subscribe to so I can keep my own Yum Repo updated (we use Centos here... :( ) M. On 13 July 2010 11:48, Dan Carley <dan.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 July 2010 11:23, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <mattmacw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> We're looking at deploying Splunk using puppet - can anyone give any >> guidance on the best way to do this? >> >> We need to setup light-forwarders and an indexing service via puppet >> manifests however it looks like we're going to have to maintain a >> custom yum repo - how do other people do it? > > I opted for syslog-ng TCP/SSL forwards, instead of Splunk's own light > forwarders, because I wasn't keen on adding the > additional proprietary dependency on each frontend node. Each node > configures itself to send the relevant logs back to a central host and > Splunk indexes from a pattern of directories therein. I also wrapped the web > service up with Nginx for some additional security. You can find my modules > here: > http://github.com/dcarley/puppet/tree/master/modules/service_splunk/ > http://github.com/dcarley/puppet/tree/master/modules/service_syslog/ > I suspect that you will almost certainly need to roll your own package if > you want to play with the latest and greatest Splunk 4.1. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
