On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Basically the ways I know of: > > > > 1) Don't run puppet as a daemon, but run it out of cron every X mins. > > 2) Setup a cronjob that checks if puppet is running and restart it if > > not. > > 3) Setup a nagios job that checks to see if puppet is running > > 4) Presuming you are managing your puppet code in some sort of > > version > > control system, you can "publish" the latest timestamp of your latest > > commit, and also push that out via puppet, and setup a nagios check > > that compares them and if they ever are behind by more than X mins > > you > > can crit on it. You could take this a step further and have nagios > > automatically restart puppet if they are behind, but if you think it > > might be a syntax error, I would probably skip that. (As an aside you > > should do syntax checking before committing. I added the commands to > > do so below) > > 5) Foreman (or dashboard) can monitor puppet runs, and flag any > > broken runs. > > 6) use the last run summary > > # cat /var/lib/puppet/state/last_run_summary.yaml > --- > time: > group: 0.000852 > last_run: 1306343446 > class: 0.002389 > yumrepo: 0.037513 > service: 2.300486 > schedule: 0.002291 > cron: 0.001797 > config_retrieval: 18.9993901252747 > total: 37.9802451252747 > package: 0.371819 > filebucket: 0.00032 > file: 15.664177 > exec: 0.593368 > user: 0.005843 > resources: > total: 384 > events: > total: 0 > changes: > > We're using puppet 2.6.4, and we don't have that file... [fre] root@prov01 ~:# ls -l /var/lib/puppet/state total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Apr 17 21:18 classes.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 10 17:14 graphs -rw-rw---- 1 root root 47421 May 25 17:25 state.yaml [fre] root@prov01 ~:# Doug. -- 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.
