Puppet users - Jan 2011 - "Registering" a node with a central service?

I have a couple of applications (backup, Cacti, Asset Tracking) where I want
a node to have some package and config installed, and once that is done,
some config to be done on another system to register the client with a
central server. Is there a standard way to do this, short of having some
kind of web service accessible from all the client systems? From my limited
Puppet knowledge, anything I add into the manifest for a node runs on that
node, doesn''t it?

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Howie

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Not totally everything runs on the node: you can use exported resources on
one node, and import them on another, if you have storeconfigs enabled.

I used to use that, last job, to export node information between our site
backup server and nodes at that site.

Regards,
    Daniel
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On Jan 26, 2011 7:02 AM, "Howard Jones" <howard.jones@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a couple of applications (backup, Cacti, Asset Tracking) where I
want
> a node to have some package and config installed, and once that is done,
> some config to be done on another system to register the client with a
> central server. Is there a standard way to do this, short of having some
> kind of web service accessible from all the client systems? From my
limited
> Puppet knowledge, anything I add into the manifest for a node runs on that
> node, doesn''t it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
>
> Howie
>
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On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Howard Jones wrote:
> I have a couple of applications (backup, Cacti, Asset Tracking) where I
want a node to have some package and config installed, and once that is done,
some config to be done on another system to register the client with a central
server. Is there a standard way to do this, short of having some kind of web
service accessible from all the client systems?
We track all of our systems in LDAP. This can be used by Puppet, but is also the
source of information for our monitoring system and many, many other scripts.

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0@skurfer.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Howard Jones wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of applications (backup, Cacti, Asset Tracking) where I
want a node to have some package and config installed, and once that is done,
some config to be done on another system to register the client with a central
server. Is there a standard way to do this, short of having some kind of web
service accessible from all the client systems?
If you''re using mcollective also, this might help:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/reference/plugins/registration.html

If you go this or the exported resources route, let us know how it
worked out for you. I haven''t implemented either yet but both are in
the plan for the coming months.

KC

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On Feb 1, 2011 11:56 PM, "KC Braunschweig"
<kcbraunschweig@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Rob McBroom
<mailinglist0@skurfer.com>
wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Howard Jones wrote:
> >
> >> I have a couple of applications (backup, Cacti, Asset Tracking)
where I
want a node to have some package and config installed, and once that is
done, some config to be done on another system to register the client with a
central server. Is there a standard way to do this, short of having some
kind of web service accessible from all the client
systems?
>
> If you''re using mcollective also, this might help:
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/reference/plugins/registration.html
>
> If you go this or the exported resources route, let us know how it
> worked out for you. I haven''t implemented either yet but both are
in
> the plan for the coming months.
For what it is worth, my recommendation was rooted firmly in practical
experience; we exported a number of exec operations with "unless"
clauses
that did this remote registration to tools that were too hostile to more
stable changes.

Regards,
    Daniel
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