On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:39 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > > It would be nice to have a way to issue offline orders to minions so 
> > > they could check in when they come online (via XMLRPC) and then see if 
> > > they have any orders.
> > >
> > > This is the other mode of communication we would like to support in 
> > > order to enable Func to replace OSAD in Spacewalk.
> > >
> > > For example, "this node should yum update the next time I see it" is 
> > > different from "this node should update now if it's online".
> > >
> > > Anyone have any thoughts on implementations?
> > >
> > > --Michael
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> > To elaborate, basically with what we have here and also the new cobbler 
> > "config file templating" feature, we have the makings of a much easier 
> > to understand config management tool, all in Python, and all very easy 
> > to understand.   This could be the beginings of "RRS" (remote rocket 
> > surgery) built on Cobbler+Func.   (See also recent Cobbler integration).
> > 
> > We just need a way to address offline nodes, basically.
> > 
> 
> Offline commands are fine if you don't expect some sort of response from
> the command, right?
> 
> We'd need something more or less like this:
> 
> for each host
>    if ping host
>       do command
>    else
>       store command and retry
> 
> the retry trick only works well if we have another daemon running that
> stores the commands and the responses, I think, I guess we could do it
> with a regularly scheduled cron job to look for unrun jobs but....
No I think the better implementation should be:

for each host
   if ping host
      do command
   else
      store command

And nothing more on "server side"

When my minion will be "online" it will send to overlord/certmaster a
"return online message"
 and then, on my server I've something like

search for hostname queued_command
        for each command
                do command

So I don't need another daemon/thread running that pool all offline
clients. I could have a lot of net traffic.

Bye
Marco
> 
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