Puppet users - Nov 2010 - (RHEL) RHN banning && require package

I''m looking to get around a bit of a problem I''ve run into
with
Puppet.   On my puppet master, I have this definition:


class httpd {
        package { httpd:
                ensure => installed
        }

        file { "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf":
          source => ["puppet:///httpd/httpd.conf-$my_role",
"puppet:///
httpd/httpd.conf-$hostname","puppet:///httpd/httpd.conf" ],
          mode => 644,
          require => Package["httpd"]
        }

        group { apache: gid => 48 }

        user { apache:
          comment => "Apache",
          uid => 48,
          gid => 48,
          home => "/var/www",
          shell => "/sbin/nologin"
        }

        service { "httpd":
          enable => true,
          ensure => running,
          require => Package["httpd"],
          subscribe => [ file["/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"],
package["httpd"] ]
        }
}


From what I understood this would enforce the package would be
installed, and keep httpd running, which is the desired effect.
However, since puppetd checks in about every 30 min, I noticed in my
log that yum was throwing an error about "network abuse" due to the
polling of yum to make sure the package is installed.

I''m curious if I could use a "schedule" and include that in
the
package definition there.

i.e. add:

schedule { daily: period => daily, range => [2, 4] }

and then modify the package def:
        package { httpd:
                ensure => installed,
                schedule => daily

        }

Would that be the best way to handle this issue?  Any opinions?

Thanks!

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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, erikthered <j.e.redding@gmail.com> wrote:
> I''m looking to get around a bit of a problem I''ve run
into with
> Puppet.   On my puppet master, I have this definition:
>
> Would that be the best way to handle this issue?  Any opinions?
>
>
I think they best way would be to put a caching proxy between your computers
and the mirror or run your own mirror.

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On Nov 3, 1:46 pm, Patrick Mohr <kc7...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, erikthered <j.e.redd...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I''m looking to get around a bit of a problem I''ve
run into with
> > Puppet.   On my puppet master, I have this definition:
>
> > Would that be the best way to handle this issue?  Any opinions?
>
> I think they best way would be to put a caching proxy between your
computers
> and the mirror or run your own mirror.
fair enough...

just for the record it appears to be working while our local repo is
being built.

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Also for the record.

We''ve experienced the banning - but only for RHEL4 hosts (which use
up2date) and not RHEL5 (which use yum).

Our solution while we still have RHEL4 hosts and haven''t implemented
RedHat
Satellite or Spacewalk was to push the runinterval out to 14400 for these
hosts. This matches the 4 hour polling cycle that RedHat set with rhnsd. We
disable rhnsd on these hosts too, so the only RHN polling mechanism is the
puppet run.
Iain
On 4 November 2010 06:43, erikthered <j.e.redding@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 3, 1:46 pm, Patrick Mohr <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, erikthered
<j.e.redd...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I''m looking to get around a bit of a problem
I''ve run into with
> > > Puppet.   On my puppet master, I have this definition:
> >
> > > Would that be the best way to handle this issue?  Any opinions?
> >
> > I think they best way would be to put a caching proxy between your
> computers
> > and the mirror or run your own mirror.
>
> fair enough...
>
> just for the record it appears to be working while our local repo is
> being built.
>
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