[Puppet Users] Re: "Failover" for puppetmasters

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Allingham
st is detected as down, cp puppet.conf.fail puppet.conf - when host back up, cp puppet.conf.master puppet.conf Cheer Tim -Original Message- From: Ohad Levy Reply-to: puppet-users@googlegroups.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: "Failover" for puppetmaster

[Puppet Users] Re: "Failover" for puppetmasters

2009-05-14 Thread Greg
Hrmmm... Local proxies on each client may introduce a fair amount of overhead, but may actually work. The only problem with scripting and then calling the right --server option is that it would require a restart of the client to fail the service over to the alternate puppetmaster - it wouldn't hap

[Puppet Users] Re: "Failover" for puppetmasters

2009-05-14 Thread Ohad Levy
Either use a local proxy or load balancer or use a wrapper script that checks which pm is alive and then execute puppet with the correct --server option Ohad On 5/14/09, Greg wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I have a multi-site setup that I am configuring to manage via Puppet. > At present > there is on