Re: [Puppet Users] Approach question on managing services

2012-03-29 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, I avoid ensure => running. Puppet is not an ideal tool for making sure a crash-prone daemon is getting restarted. Instead, puppet will make sure run levels are populated with the essentials. System monitoring (nagios etc.) informs of outages. Cheers, Felix On 03/22/2012 05:00 PM, Kenneth L

[Puppet Users] Approach question on managing services

2012-03-22 Thread Kenneth Lo
I want to gather some ideas and/or best practice with the fine folks here in the group in terms of how you manage services in your environment. For essential services like ssh, it's pretty much standard affair with the basic Package/Config/Service paradigm. Monitor the package info, make sure it