[Puppet Users] Re: Can't get simplest client / server connection to work still

2010-07-26 Thread DaveQB
Try messing with the: certname= value in the [puppetd] Stanza. Other than that, there is a way to see what the name on the cert is. I have used that but can't recall the openssl command for that. Search for it. On Jul 27, 4:29 am, "WEB PAGE: http://www.dyarstraights.com (08/14/04) WEB PAGE:

[Puppet Users] Re: install package based on operatingsystem AND operatingsystemrelease

2010-08-11 Thread DaveQB
Here's how I do it. if ( $operatingsystem == "SLES" ) and ( $operatingsystemrelease == "10" ){ include SLES_10 } if ( $operatingsystem == "SLES" ) and ( $operatingsystemrelease == "11" ){ include SLES_11 } Of course run facter to check the variables. But you get the ide

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-14 Thread DaveQB
I too have been after this for some time. I will take a read of this. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up Dan. Thanks! On Nov 12, 8:26 pm, "luke.bigum" wrote: > Excellent, thanks for that Dan I'll take a look. > > On Nov 11, 5:42 pm, Dan Bode wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On Thu, No

[Puppet Users] Re: Yum Repos - Best Practice?

2010-12-21 Thread DaveQB
A less elegant way, but an alternative is to simply have a *.repo file per use case (if you don't have too many) and simply include that file in the class or node that needs it. On Dec 21, 4:07 am, Felix Frank wrote: > On 12/20/2010 07:26 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > > > > Hi all, >

[Puppet Users] Re: Considerations for puppet/cluster to manage 6000 hosts.

2011-01-11 Thread DaveQB
We had trouble scaling with 400+ nodes. Puppet server is a VM on an ESX cluster with 3.5GB of ram and 1.5GB of swap but would regularly kick in OOM which would kill off most if not all of the 10 puppetmaster instances. We felt scheduling a restart of the puppetmasters a few times a day was not a su

[Puppet Users] Re: Master-less : What do I lose?

2011-02-09 Thread DaveQB
We have moved to a masterless puppet install after running a server/ client method for over a year (maybe two). We have about 500 machines but started having trouble with alot less (~100) The puppet master would consume 8 GB and then crash due to running out of RAM. The puppet server was too unstab

[Puppet Users] Re: Can puppet client make immediate pull after a file's content change by user?

2011-05-08 Thread DaveQB
Maybe incron is the tool you are after. On May 6, 5:03 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 23:52, John Chris Richards > > wrote: > > I totally agree with you. Hence with the above solution we can have a > > little bit more control over our systems. > > Hey.  Sorry for getting int

[Puppet Users] Re: Can puppet client make immediate pull after a file's content change by user?

2011-05-08 Thread DaveQB
Maybe incron is the tool you are after. On May 6, 5:03 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Hey.  Sorry for getting into this discussion late: if you really > wanted to trigger a puppet run after a file was modified, I would > probably take the approach of using an external tool to do the > triggering.

[Puppet Users] Re: Can puppet client make immediate pull after a file's content change by user?

2011-05-08 Thread DaveQB
Maybe incron is the tool you are after. On May 6, 5:03 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 23:52, John Chris Richards > > wrote: > > I totally agree with you. Hence with the above solution we can have a > > little bit more control over our systems. > > Hey.  Sorry for getting in