Hi, I consider Puppet for maintaining regional configuration in 5 offices across 2 timezones. I know Puppet is very time sensitive (the SSL handshake actually). There will be only one puppetmaster in one of the timezones and agents will be Windows workstations and Mac notebooks. My questions are: 1) Will there be problems running clients from different time zone than puppet master ? 2) What is the required client clock accuracy ? Thank you, Dragos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
----- Original Message -----> From: "Dragos R" <thenkr@gmail.com> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:33:03 AM > Subject: [Puppet Users] Puppet time accuracy > > Hi, > > I consider Puppet for maintaining regional configuration in 5 offices > across 2 timezones. I know Puppet is > very time sensitive (the SSL handshake actually). > > There will be only one puppetmaster in one of the timezones and agents will > be Windows workstations and Mac > notebooks. > > My questions are: > 1) Will there be problems running clients from different time zone than > puppet master ?no it works fine, the thing that matters are the times in the certificates and those are done via UTC so your machines timezone generally doesnt matter> 2) What is the required client clock accuracy ?just install NTP, there isn''t really a range of accuracy, its easier to just have the correct time than worry about it being kind of right -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
On 21.03.2013 12:33, Dragos R wrote:> Hi, > > I consider Puppet for maintaining regional configuration in 5 offices > across 2 timezones. I know Puppet is > very time sensitive (the SSL handshake actually). > > There will be only one puppetmaster in one of the timezones and agents > will be Windows workstations and Mac > notebooks. > > My questions are: > 1) Will there be problems running clients from different time zone than > puppet master ?I can say from experience that this is no problem. All time calculations are done taking the timezone into account.> 2) What is the required client clock accuracy ?The only real constraint I ever noticed is, that the master refuses to sign certificates that were created in the (his) future. This often happens when the RTC (hardware clock) in a server is not set to UTC, but the installer thinks it is and puppet runs before NTP has kicked in. Best Regards, David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.