On Mar 28, 5:09 am, John Kennedy <skeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have set up Nagios to monitor the access time for > /var/lib/puppet/state/state.yaml to ensure that puppetd is checking in in a > timely manner. > It appears as though it is not because state.yaml is over 39,000 seconds > old. If I manually run puppet agent --test on the client then puppet does > run and state.yaml is updated. > I can see nothing in the logs to indicate that puppet is erroring out. > puppet.conf has the following: > > runinetrval = 600 > > indicating that puppet should check in every 10 minutes (too often in my > opinion, but not my call). > Should state.yaml be updated every 10 minutes as implied here or should I > check else where?
I am not confident that you can rely on state.yaml being updated when nothing changes. Your master and agent logs show both show whether the agent has been checking in, so I suggest you look there next to better characterize the problem. John -- 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.
