Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-31 Thread Dan White
I believe I got it working ! I'm using the mac address instead of uuid as the mac address is a machine-unique value I can easily access. I will post details of my implementation (cobbler snippet tweaks and all) once I am confident I have all the details covered. "Pay it forward !!" Thanks for

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-31 Thread Gary Larizza
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Dan White wrote: > OK, let me try to see if I have it. Please correct any misteaks I make in > this attempt. > > The paragraph pointed to by the link says that a certname is "...The name > to use when handling certificates. Defaults to the fully qualified domain

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-31 Thread Dan White
OK, let me try to see if I have it. Please correct any misteaks I make in this attempt. The paragraph pointed to by the link says that a certname is "...The name to use when handling certificates. Defaults to the fully qualified domain name." The top of the page also says that configuration se

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Smith
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html#certname On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Dan White wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Gary Larizza wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dan White wrote: > >> >> On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Dan White
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Gary Larizza wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dan White wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Dan White wrote: The environment I work in has dev, QA, and production divisions. New machines are built

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Gary Larizza
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Dan White wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Dan White wrote: > >> The environment I work in has dev, QA, and production divisions. >> New machines are built/loaded in dev and then moved, if neces

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Dan White
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Dan White wrote: The environment I work in has dev, QA, and production divisions. New machines are built/loaded in dev and then moved, if necessary to QA or production after they have been configured and ver

Re: [Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Dan White wrote: > The environment I work in has dev, QA, and production divisions. > New machines are built/loaded in dev and then moved, if necessary to QA or > production after they have been configured and verified. In moving, the > machine in question will c

[Puppet Users] Need some advice: Clients that change name and IP address

2011-08-30 Thread Dan White
The environment I work in has dev, QA, and production divisions. New machines are built/loaded in dev and then moved, if necessary to QA or production after they have been configured and verified. In moving, the machine in question will change its IP address and hostname. I have set up a Cobble