Most of my puppet runs take ~15 seconds or so, however my Nagios servers
take up to 4 minutes to complete.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Chris Phillips <ch...@untrepid.com> wrote:

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> On 10 October 2011 13:05, Jonathan Gazeley <jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk
> > wrote:
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>> On 08/10/11 21:22, Chris Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> What better way to monitor the puppet runs than by executing that run as
>>> part of the check?
>>>
>>
>> I assume your Nagios execution timeout must be insanely long? :)
>>
>> In the past I have considered using Nagios for things other than
>> monitoring, and likewise using Puppet for things other than configuration.
>> On both counts I decided it was probably best to set a boundary and not
>> wilfully abuse these tools, since it's likely to go wrong sooner or later!
>> In my organisation we use Nagios only to monitor, and Puppet only to
>> configure.
>>
>>
> always done within 30 seconds, and it's not like if it took longer on an
> occasional rollout  it would impact puppet at all, temporarily messy as the
> monitor results might be.
>
> fundamentally though, with cron or puppetd being trivial simple, i'm more
> than happy to be doing it this way.
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> Chris
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