Hi Den, and thank you for the response. There is some data that will need to be rsynced, but mostly it's drawing from mysql nodes, and not storing or creating data itself.
One issue, though, that I wonder if just copying and pasting into the spare nodes manifest - I need the hostname to change as well. I'm assuming to do that, I delete the certs on the agent and master, and send another certificate request from the agent to the master? Or is there a better way to handle that? Thank you, Roger On Sunday, July 6, 2014 5:21:13 PM UTC-4, denmat wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > Yes you can copy the critical node configuration into the spare node's. > > However, it really does depend on what that critical node does and any > special requirements it has. It may have services that might need to be > managed across one by one. Or it may require one node to be shutdown before > the other come up. > > Anyway, short answer is yes, you can copy the node definitions if that > makes sense to do so. > > HTH > Den > > On 7 Jul 2014, at 4:44, Roger Sherman <slammin...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I've inherited an environment that is using Puppet 2.7. We're migrating > from one datacenter to another, but we're still running out of the old > datacenter. Some of our hardware there is reaching EOL, and it's creating a > situation that I, with my limited Puppet experience, am not really sure how > to procede. > > We have a node that is fairly critical, that may be dying. Long story > short, we have a a server there that has the same resource setup (CPU, RAM, > etc), that isn't doing anything, and we want the spare node to take over > for the critical node. After much discussion, we think the easiest way to > make that happen is by running the puppet manifest for the critical node, > on the spare node. > > This raises a couple of questions - the one that I'm having the most > trouble wrapping my head around is, what is the best method for making the > spare node use the critical nodes manifest? I don't think I can just copy > and paste it into the spare nodes manifest (it used to be part of a > different group of servers), can I? I assume I need to change the > hostname...if so, what is the best method for doing so? > > Both nodes are running Debain 6 - any and all help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Roger > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/b888c8d1-e541-43e3-bb97-d8245651b38a%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/b888c8d1-e541-43e3-bb97-d8245651b38a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/abbe4a77-3ed2-4981-afe8-d8abd34c6752%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
