Oh where to begin? I work for a company that has not taken our Linux or Unix server configuration management very seriously. We are primarily a Windows shop but long story short upper-management has taken the advice of our Windows Server admins and purchased BigFix which is now IBM Tivoli Endpoint Management (TEM). I have tried for over a month to get one of my SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 patched using TEM when I discovered a bug with their client. It took over 5 hours to apply 30 patches. Performing this task manually, could have been accomplished in under 15 - 30 minutes. I was trying to get buy in to abandon TEM for our SLES servers but was told to make TEM work and just do the patching manual until IBM corrects the client bug. IBM doesn''t have an ETA for my APAR which is their bug report, I guess. The price for Puppet Enterprise was reasonable and far less expensive than TEM so I am thinking about getting Puppet installed, non-Enterprise version, to really show upper- management how superior this tool is. I''ve seen a couple webinar sessions of the new PE 2.0 version and wondered if this can all be accomplished with the community version. Also, anyone have any good step-by-step guides to get Puppet up and running, the community version? I understand that PE 2.0 does all the installation and configurations and provides a very easy to use GUI. I am a new user to Puppet but read many articles and it sounds like the tool to use to manage the SLES servers. I just don''t know where to begin. What is the average time for a user to get Puppet community edition up and running? Thanks in advanced! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Bernd Adamowicz
2011-Nov-29 14:53 UTC
AW: [Puppet Users] Puppet Setup Difficulty With SuSE
I recently set up our CI system using two Puppet masters and some 50 Puppet agents. If you follow some installation instruction it will not take longer than a day for having set up your first Puppet master and some agents. Once this is done the actual work starts: * create/configure the Puppet modules * add more nodes to Puppet * establish monitoring (Icinga/Puppet processes) * analyze/fix errors * ... For our system with two Puppet masters, some 50 nodes and one Icinga host monitoring everything, it took me about two months to have all set up and stable running. This may give you a hint of how long it would take for you. If you want to see some details of what I''ve done or what may happen when setting up a Puppet system, you may want to have a look at some articles in my blog https://berndadamowicz.wordpress.com or of course the Puppet documentation. Bernd> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > users@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von jkinning > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2011 03:13 > An: Puppet Users > Betreff: [Puppet Users] Puppet Setup Difficulty With SuSE > > Oh where to begin? I work for a company that has not taken our Linux > or Unix server configuration management very seriously. We are > primarily a Windows shop but long story short upper-management has > taken the advice of our Windows Server admins and purchased BigFix > which is now IBM Tivoli Endpoint Management (TEM). I have tried for > over a month to get one of my SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 > patched using TEM when I discovered a bug with their client. It took > over 5 hours to apply 30 patches. Performing this task manually, could > have been accomplished in under 15 - 30 minutes. > I was trying to get buy in to abandon TEM for our SLES servers but was > told to make TEM work and just do the patching manual until IBM > corrects the client bug. IBM doesn''t have an ETA for my APAR which is > their bug report, I guess. The price for Puppet Enterprise was > reasonable and far less expensive than TEM so I am thinking about > getting Puppet installed, non-Enterprise version, to really show upper- > management how superior this tool is. I''ve seen a couple webinar > sessions of the new PE 2.0 version and wondered if this can all be > accomplished with the community version. Also, anyone have any good > step-by-step guides to get Puppet up and running, the community > version? I understand that PE 2.0 does all the installation and > configurations and provides a very easy to use GUI. I am a new user to > Puppet but read many articles and it sounds like the tool to use to > manage the SLES servers. I just don''t know where to begin. What is the > average time for a user to get Puppet community edition up and > running? > > Thanks in advanced! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet- > users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.