On Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:44:57 AM UTC-7, Sandra Schlichting wrote: > > > How can MCollective replace "puppet kick"? >> >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/AgentPuppetd >> >> > > I don't know what MCollective is, and that link doesn't say anything that > will explain it or how I can push configs to nodes =( > > > MCollective is a service that runs on every node. It constantly polls a message queue server for real-time messages and sometimes responds to them by performing actions.
You use a command-line client app to send messages, and you can set filters on each message so only certain nodes or groups of nodes will respond to them. Every node that matches a message will react simultaneously when the message goes out. Each node has a set of actions it can run, provided by plugins. The "puppetd" plugin lets you control puppet agent, but it's better than puppet kick: It can trigger runs even if puppet agent usually runs via cron instead of as a service, it can enable and disable puppet runs, and it can fetch last run summaries. MCollective also lets you be smarter about triggering runs because it doesn't limit you to hostnames; you can filter by puppet class, facts, etc. Does that help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/OkhrYAQzIdcJ. 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.
