[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-10 Thread Kurt Engle
uot;[:lower:]"` -kurt On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Kurt Engle wrote: > > This is fantastic. I think something like this will be very useful in > > managing a large number of Macintosh clients. It is certa

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-10 Thread Kurt Engle
This is fantastic. I think something like this will be very useful in managing a large number of Macintosh clients. It is certainly the help and outcome that I was looking for when I started this thread. A big "Thank You" to Allan and everyone else that contributed. I took a little different but s

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-09 Thread Kurt Engle
gt; > > > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Allan Marcus wrote: > > > >> the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that using the > >> Mac's serial number is the least worst option for cert name. There is > >> still the issue of the machine being

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-08 Thread Kurt Engle
So are you wanting the cert cleaning and creation to happen everytime a client contacts the puppetmaster? What I am looking for is a script that will run on a newly imaged client that run at bootup before the puppetd process is started. That script would delete any cert on the puppetmaster and the

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-02 Thread Kurt Engle
. > > > > My issue is with machines that need to be re-imaged. I am not real > > well versed on how certs and CA's function, but the newly imaged > > device fails to get a new cert from the CA(puppetmaster) and the CA > > complains that it has a ce

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-07-01 Thread Kurt Engle
ff. -kurt On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Michael Semcheski > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kurt Engle wrote: > >> Our imaging process takes an OS base image with a few apps that include &

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-06-30 Thread Kurt Engle
le to talk to the puppetmaster. Thanks for your replies and help with this. -kurt On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Kurt Engle wrote: > > Pre-generating all the certs would be very time consuming with hundreds > of > > m

[Puppet Users] Re: Workstations and Certs

2009-06-30 Thread Kurt Engle
Pre-generating all the certs would be very time consuming with hundreds of machines to deal with. Also, we would need to create a specific image for each machine which would be an even bigger nightmare from my understanding. We used the serial number as the hostname since the serial number on the

[Puppet Users] Re: Using LDAP to determine package distribution

2009-04-08 Thread Kurt Engle
Rob, thanks again for your response. You are basically correct in understanding what we are trying to accomplish. We have a number of different configurations for devices out there on our network...too many. We are trying to get out of the business of determining what needs to be installed on a de