Puppet users - Dec 2012 - Puppet client runs outside of office hours

anyone have any smart ideas around scheduling puppet client runs during 
specific times ? such as outside of office hours ?

any options that can be set in the puppet.conf for example ?

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Run puppet agent via cron. Add in a random delay so that all the clients 
don''t hit the server at the same time. I use the following script and
set
to run every 30 minutes:

#!/bin/bash

# Grab a random value between 0-1740 (29 minutes).
value=$RANDOM
while [ $value -gt 1740 ] ; do
  value=$RANDOM
done

# Sleep for that time.
sleep $value

# do puppet run
/usr/bin/puppet agent -t

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:19:51 PM UTC-5, kdo
wrote:
>
> anyone have any smart ideas around scheduling puppet client runs during 
> specific times ? such as outside of office hours ?
>
> any options that can be set in the puppet.conf for example ?
>
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Cron would be your best bet. You can manage cron jobs via puppet.

kdo <karl@hampels.com.au> wrote:
>anyone have any smart ideas around scheduling puppet client runs during
specific times ? such as outside of office hours ?
>
>
>any options that can be set in the puppet.conf for example ?
>
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We use this

  cron { "puppet":
    ensure  => present,
    command => $ppt_cmd,
    user    => ''root'',
    hour    => fqdn_rand(6),
    minute  => fqdn_rand(60)
  }
so puppet runs happen ''randomly between midnight and 05:59

Regards,

Stefan - Zipkid - Goethals.


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:23 AM, DenMat Gone <tu2bgone@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cron would be your best bet. You can manage cron jobs via puppet.
>
>
> kdo <karl@hampels.com.au> wrote:
>
> anyone have any smart ideas around scheduling puppet client runs during
> specific times ? such as outside of office hours ?
>
> any options that can be set in the puppet.conf for example ?
>
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