On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:48:30AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > Is it crucial that the data be current at the beginning any puppet run? > > Is the data itself used in configuring the host, or is it just the > > presence of current data that has an effect on how/when puppet runs? > > > > Weeelll.. this PARTICULAR data, is more just inventory type data. it > is not crucial to the puppet run itself at all.
Then I really do advise you not to use Puppet as the transport. Use puppet to set up the data collection and transmission/retrieval processes and let them run independently. > > However, in the future, we will have more interest in adding on > random scripts that need to be run on all machines, but not at > exactly the same time And will *those* be integral to Puppet's operation, or are you just hoping that Puppet can provide you with a way of managing parallel execution? -- Bruce If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too simple to understand it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
