On 25 August 2016 at 17:04, Mike Wilson <uce.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guess I just can't get a good idea what the smart proxies exactly do. Are > they just for API calls? Do they actually let other proxies sync up > modules/node data? >
It's for API, yes. They don't talk to each other, they only talk to Foreman (in general - of course, plugins can do what they like). Since the intention is to only have a single Foreman, but to manage multiple networks/datacentres/office etc, then intended use of smart proxies is for Foreman to have something consistent to talk to that can manage local services in a gven location. That might mean Puppetmasters, DNS servers, TFTP, etc. YOu can get a diagram of that in the manual - https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.12/#Smart-Proxy For the sake of clarity, I'll also add a note about the overloading of the word "proxy" - it means many things to many people these days. The smart-proxy is a proxy in the sense of "a person authorized to act on behalf of another" (see https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=definiton+proxy). In other words, it acts on the behalf of Foreman on a local network. It is not a caching proxy, reverse proxy, or other form of synchronisation agent. If I set up a remote smart-proxy puppet master and tell it to use the > primary foreman puppet master as proxy... will it also keep the modules, > nodes, and other data that is manipulated in Foreman (it's the primary > puppet master also) current? > The short answer is "no". To explain a little, understand that no state or data is stored in the proxy at all - if, for example, you ask the proxy for a free IP on it's subnet, then it gets this by parsing the DHCP leases file *right now*, not by storing a set of IP states itself. Do I need to manually sync the puppet server files in > /etc/puppetlabs/code/* (we do something like that that currently with our > multi-puppet server setup) but unclear if this is required for foreman and > smart-proxy setup. > You do, yes. Foreman makes no statement about how Puppet code should arrive on disk - all it does is (when you click Import in the UI) ask the puppet stuff what classes are on disk right now - that could be by asking the puppetmaster over the Puppet API or parsing the *.pp files themselves (for older puppetmasters with no class API) Hope it helps! Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
