[Puppet Users] [ANN] last_puppetrun

2010-06-07 Thread Kaspar Schiess
Hi all, I've released a small tool that displays when puppet last ran successfully on your nodes. Here's a bit more about that: http://blog.absurd.li/2010/06/07/a_small_tool_for_puppet.html You can get it here: http://github.com/kschiess/last_puppetrun Note that you probably have to ins

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Why we wont use zpool ever again

2010-04-07 Thread Kaspar Schiess
So I don't get how you could have lost your pool, as zpool will refuse to overwrite an existing pool without the "-f". All you would have had to do was run "zpool import" and you'd been back to normal. To be perfectly honest with you, I am a bit in the dark about that as well. I've done the sam

Re: [Puppet Users] Why we wont use zpool ever again

2010-04-07 Thread Kaspar Schiess
Use "puppetd --disable" the next time to keep your tools from stampeding over your manual recovery efforts. I am not sure I understand - I could only boot into failsafe mode at the time. And the first real boot came up with puppetd running first thing. I can't think of anything to stop that,

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet clients dieing

2010-04-06 Thread Kaspar Schiess
Nat wrote: has anyone else experienced puppet clients that die when the network goes down for an extended period of time ? That happens here as well. We even have a script to monitor last_run times of all puppet clients to detect this. It seems that a puppet master not answering for some tim

Re: [Puppet Users] Why we wont use zpool ever again

2010-04-06 Thread Kaspar Schiess
Hi as far as I understood was that the zpool information was lost, hence puppet thought that there was no zpool anymore. I assume that this means that zpool-tools didn't know about that anymore either, but it might have been recoverable with manual interaction. That's what happened. Actually, it

[Puppet Users] Why we wont use zpool ever again

2010-04-06 Thread Kaspar Schiess
Hi everyone, Just wanted to tell you a little story. We've been enthusiastic puppet users since about a year ago here at the Geographic Institute of the University of Zürich. But we won't use the zpool type ever again. Its just not worth it. Here's what happened: . one of our servers lost