Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread Jason Edgecombe
You're welcome. I'm still a puppet n00b, so I don't have an answer to your all of your questions. I'm using my experience with other tools and patterns to give guidance. It's on my to-do list to migrate from cfengine to puppet. I recognize the pattern that you want. You have a role or task th

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread Gavin Williams
Jason Cheers for that link. The '*puppet device*' command certainly exists on all puppet nodes. What I'm not sure of is whether there is anything else that it needs to function? Otherwise, it would be just as easy to nominate a node within each location that has got puppet installed, and use the

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Here is a document for running multiple puppet masters: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scaling_multiple_masters.html Have you confirmed that the network device management only runs from the puppet master? As I understand most of the puppet actions are performed by the puppet agent, which runs

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread Gavin Williams
That sounds ideal... Might make sense with general node performance etc aswell... Any examples on how to do that? Cheers Gavin On Friday, 21 December 2012 15:17:47 UTC, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > > What about running a satellite puppet master at each site? > > On 12/21/2012 03:57 AM, fatmcgav

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread Jason Edgecombe
What about running a satellite puppet master at each site? On 12/21/2012 03:57 AM, fatmcgav wrote: Peter Cheers for the response. Network device management is being achieved using Puppet's new 'Network Device' support as part of 3.0... Site to site connectivity isn't an issue, as we've got a

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-21 Thread fatmcgav
Peter Cheers for the response. Network device management is being achieved using Puppet's new 'Network Device' support as part of 3.0... Site to site connectivity isn't an issue, as we've got a 100Mbps MPLS link between all 3... However it was more about security and the practicality of allowing

Re: [Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-20 Thread Peter Brown
On 21 December 2012 02:40, Gavin Williams wrote: > Afternoon all > > We are starting to look at using Puppet Network device support in anger, > and one of the potential issues that has been raised is around cross-site > access... > > Currently, we have one Puppet master server, which is hosted in

[Puppet Users] Remote Network Device management...

2012-12-20 Thread Gavin Williams
Afternoon all We are starting to look at using Puppet Network device support in anger, and one of the potential issues that has been raised is around cross-site access... Currently, we have one Puppet master server, which is hosted in location C. This server is able to access and manage the a