> I'm new with Puppet and as far as I have searched I couldn't find a > very good solution for updating some machines over the network. I
I think that many on the list feel that you should use the correct tool for the job here, which in your case sounds like an apt-get or equivalent via cron. I do the same here on sles boxes via zypper and rug. > could use Puppet to do a cron job for that but I don't have so much > control over the updates and I want to have a more flexible option for Here's how I handle this: Updates are mirrored from Novell and stored in a sandbox repository. The sandbox hosts apply updates every Friday via a cron job. This includes updates that require a reboot. The sandbox repo is mirrored up to the test layer every two weeks, which gives us a chance to catch anything that really breaks our environment. Once we are comfortable with the patches in test, we mirror the repo up to the production layer. Updates are not automatic here. Instead, a cron job runs a script that generates a report that details all of the updates ready to be applied, including the category of update, and whether a reboot is required. It sends this report to our ticketing system and cc's it to an admin mailbox. Based on that ticket, an administrator creates a change control request to apply the updates listed. > starting those updates other than a cron job and I don't want to > distrub the people who are using those machines for updates. The obvious thing to do here would be to schedule the updates for off hours. In my case, the production updates are done by hand by an administrator. > Have you done something like that or do you have some ideas? By the > way, the machines which I want to update are installed with Ubuntu. The reporting tool I mentioned is available here - you may be able to adapt this for Ubuntu: http://blog.barfoo.org/2008/08/16/zypper-update-report-was-patch2mail-for-sles10/ --Justin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
