Felix Frank <felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
writes:> On 09/30/2010 02:36 PM, Jeff wrote:
>
>> I''d love to use puppet as a tool to manage cron jobs across
the
>> enterprise. Ideally, I''d like to chuck our expensive
enterprise scheduling
>> package.
Yeah, that isn''t going to happen, unless you use essentially zero of
the
features of that package. (OTOH, I would recommend SGE[1], Torque, PBS, or
Condor as suitable non-big-dollars packages :)
>> To do that, I need to get job failure notifications to the network
>> operations center. Can someone suggest a way I can accomplish that?
You would have to write your own code to do that: puppet will create cron
records, but then cron runs them entirely outside the control of puppet.
Which means that unless cron does this for you (which it doesn''t) you
don''t
get a darn thing of value from puppet other than sending the job.
> what''s your specific problem with that? Cron generates mail with
stdout
> content automatically. Puppet can control target addresses without
problems.
>
> Sorry for the noise if your problem is more obvious than I realize.
I suspect it is only clear if you have used "enterprise scheduling"
style
software, which does a whole lot of stuff to monitor and manage jobs. :)
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Presumably OGE now that Oracle own Sun and all. :)
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