It depends on how you use it. In our environment, we don't leave the Puppet daemon running. We only do on-demand runs... that way changes only happen when we push them out.
Your mileage obviously may vary, but if you're looking for tight control, that's something to consider. -- Nathan Clemons http://www.livemocha.com The worlds largest online language learning community On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Nathan Clemons <nat...@livemocha.com>wrote: > >> Mcollective hides successes and only shows you failures, keeping the >> signal to noise ratio very high. >> >> If you run puppet without daemonizing, anything that causes the config to >> not be applied successfully is going to show up as an error. >> >> > Yes, but then, when there is an error, the daemon stops running. Assuming > you had nagios checking for that, you've still got to wait for the nagios > alert to find out, and in the mean time, the guy who is on call this week, > who gets the texts is going to be even more pissed than he already is for > getting alerts at 3am. > > 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. > -- 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.
