Sandra, The mcollective agent is written in Ruby, but it's really tiny. You can use the mco controller plugin to view resource utilization over time, and it's generally infinitesimal.
-Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 Join us for PuppetConf 2012 at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco, California on September 27th and 28th --> http://bit.ly/pcsig12 On Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sandra Schlichting wrote: > > MCollective is a service that runs on every node. It constantly polls a > > message queue server for real-time messages and sometimes responds to them > > by performing actions. > > > > You use a command-line client app to send messages, and you can set filters > > on each message so only certain nodes or groups of nodes will respond to > > them. Every node that matches a message will react simultaneously when the > > message goes out. > > > > Each node has a set of actions it can run, provided by plugins. The > > "puppetd" plugin lets you control puppet agent, but it's better than puppet > > kick: It can trigger runs even if puppet agent usually runs via cron > > instead of as a service, it can enable and disable puppet runs, and it can > > fetch last run summaries. MCollective also lets you be smarter about > > triggering runs because it doesn't limit you to hostnames; you can filter > > by puppet class, facts, etc. > > > > Does that help? > > Absolutely =) > > Wow! That is impressive. > > I have seen the puppet agent taking ~100MB of ram. > > Is MCollective also written in Ruby, and therefore take a lot of ram? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/VK67c2UfgG4J. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- 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.
