I can tell you that for me, and for my group, it's a halfway step between reloading Puppet and watching the logs, and a full --debug -- no-daemonize run.
So for instance, when they're troubleshooting a bug in a newly-written or modified class, I suggest a puppetd -tv run to just output the errors and successes...and if you see an error, you could then follow up with the more verbose --debug to get at what Puppet was trying to do that generated it, provided that you didn't get enough from the former. It might be wise to consider combining a bunch of similar options (verbose, test, debug, etc) into a "verbose" with levels of output -- either v1, v2, v3 or vv, vvv, vvvv, etc. -Eric On Jan 23, 8:51 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:34 PM, James Louis <jgloui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so the actual changes take place, if any, during a test vs a noop which does > > not let the actual changes take place. So this would be used primarily for > > configuration testing? Or perhaps for troubleshooting? Or both? > > Yes, both. > > Due to it being quick to type, it's become the defacto method for > interactively triggering puppet agent runs. > > puppet agent -t > > Maybe the right answer is to identify the chunks of functionality > people use it for, and add those as new options, deprecating --test > itself. > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:53 PM, James Louis <jgloui...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > exactly. to what purpose? > > >> To trigger an immediate run on a client with the common options used > >> when testing a real run, not a noop run. > > >> If there was a clear word that described this functionality, we > >> probably wouldn't be having this discussion. > > >> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:47 PM, James Louis wrote: > > >> >> > that tells what options are applied when --test is used but doesn't > >> >> > explain the functionality of --test (i.e. --test is an option to > >> >> > enable the > >> >> > puppet agent to test it's connection to the puppet master by turning > >> >> > on the > >> >> > following options... blah blah blah) > > >> >> Ah. Basically, test doesn't do anything except turn on all those > >> >> options. > > >> >> -- > >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> >> Groups > >> >> "Puppet Users" group. > >> >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > >> > -- > >> > “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that > >> > you > >> > didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail > >> > away > >> > from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. > >> > Dream. > >> > Discover.” > >> > – Mark Twain > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "Puppet Users" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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. > > > -- > > “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you > > didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away > > from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. > > Discover.” > > – Mark Twain > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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.
