Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet for switches

2010-05-11 Thread Dick Davies
I have a dozen use cases for some sort of
Puppet 'proxy' client that could supply facts and
act as a provider for
(e.g. load balancers, rackspace cloud, web services,
embedded devices) where running Puppet locally was not practical.

Does anyone  know of such a thing?

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Michael DeHaan mich...@puppetlabs.com wrote:

 Just to add a similar 'this would be neat' comment to it, I know
 several of the Cobbler guys have talked about wanting to see a
 libswitch kind of similar to a libvirt.

 If we had such a thing, making a Puppet type for it seems quite logical.

 This sounds like it would be along similar lines.

 Next steps:   X-10 home automation hooks :)

 --Michael

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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet for switches

2010-05-08 Thread Don Jackson

On May 5, 2010, at 9:02 AM, seph wrote:

 Geoff Crompton geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au writes:
 
 This might be a crazy idea, but it just popped into my head, and I
 wanted to know if it's possible. Perhaps not possible right now, but
 possible in a theoretical sense.
 
 Is it possible that puppet could be modified to be used to manage
 switches that have a command line based interface?
 
 I think there's a lot of value in configuration management system for
 network stuff. Though I don't think puppet is a good fit. Puppet has
 lots of types that don't really make sense in that context.
 
 http://www.netomata.com is the most recent thing I've seen in this
 space. I'm not sure how far along they are.

I am currently using the ncg, from Netomata to manage my switches/routers.  
Its's great, I recommend it.


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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet for switches

2010-05-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Geoff Crompton
geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
 seph wrote:

 Geoff Crompton geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au writes:

 This might be a crazy idea, but it just popped into my head, and I
 wanted to know if it's possible. Perhaps not possible right now, but
 possible in a theoretical sense.

 Is it possible that puppet could be modified to be used to manage
 switches that have a command line based interface?

 I think there's a lot of value in configuration management system for
 network stuff. Though I don't think puppet is a good fit. Puppet has
 lots of types that don't really make sense in that context.

 http://www.netomata.com is the most recent thing I've seen in this
 space. I'm not sure how far along they are.

 seph


 I posted a similar question on sage-au just after my puppet post. Someone
 pointed me to http://www.netomata.com. While it looks like it has a little
 way to go, it looks so good that it deflated my enthusiasm for using puppet
 for this. Naturally TMTOWTDI.

 --
 +-Geoff Crompton
 +--Debian System Administrator
 +---Trinity College


Just to add a similar 'this would be neat' comment to it, I know
several of the Cobbler guys have talked about wanting to see a
libswitch kind of similar to a libvirt.

If we had such a thing, making a Puppet type for it seems quite logical.

This sounds like it would be along similar lines.

Next steps:   X-10 home automation hooks :)

--Michael

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[Puppet Users] Re: puppet for switches

2010-05-05 Thread seph
Geoff Crompton geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au writes:

 This might be a crazy idea, but it just popped into my head, and I
 wanted to know if it's possible. Perhaps not possible right now, but
 possible in a theoretical sense.

 Is it possible that puppet could be modified to be used to manage
 switches that have a command line based interface?

I think there's a lot of value in configuration management system for
network stuff. Though I don't think puppet is a good fit. Puppet has
lots of types that don't really make sense in that context.

http://www.netomata.com is the most recent thing I've seen in this
space. I'm not sure how far along they are.

seph

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