Re: [Puppet Users] hosts update trouble

Carl Caum
2010-01-22T20:29:13Z

I''ve run in to the same problem.  I''ve started to solve this
problem by getting rid of puppetmasters and puppetd.  Instead I''m
building a new management tool called Puppeteer.  I''m almost ready to
begin testing, but it''s not ready for others to try yet.  I''ll
post to the list when it''s read for others to try.

In the mean time, look in to using puppetrun to trigger a run on the clients and
set the clients to never autorun.  Then you build a quick tool that sends out
puppetrun commands in a way you decide.  Of course, you can also trigger runs
manually this way.  I know Reductive Lab''s puppet-dashboard will
support triggering client runs in the future.  Maybe it''s better to
wait for that or for Puppeteer.

On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Arnauld wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I do not know if it''s a bug, a feature or something I
didn''t
> understood, but it''s I can''t update my clients hosts
"synchronously".
> What I mean by "synchronously" is that when I push a new
configuration
> on my master server, I do not know when my clients will be updated.
> And it also appears that some clients get their whole new
> configuration in less than 1 hour whereas some other clients can get
> their new configuration in some few days.
>
> What I would like is to deploy automaticaly my new configuration on
> all my clients at a given time (for example when I restart the puppetd
> daemon).
>
> Is it possible ?
>
> Arnauld