Re: [Puppet Users] OT: Monitoring solutions

2012-06-27 Thread Michael Baydoun
We are using xymon, graphs come standard On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Kyle Sexton wrote: > All, > > I'm curious what monitoring solutions everyone is using and recommend, > some of the ones I've been looking at recently: > > Nagios: Old stand-by, used quite a bit but doesn't provide a cohesi

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet windows exec successful but not really

2012-06-22 Thread Michael Baydoun
yes , that's a typo. Working now, thanks! Too bad it returns 0 all the time. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Josh Cooper wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Josh Cooper wrote: > > > > Hi Michael > > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1

Re: [Puppet Users] Unsupported osfamily: Linux operatingsystem: Amazon

2012-06-20 Thread Michael Baydoun
You do not need to restart anything The case statement in the module is using the variable $osfamily, not $operatingsystem The error message is stating the osfamily is Linux Replace where you entered 'Amazon' with 'Linux' so it reads as follows 'RedHat', 'Linux': { On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:13

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Reducing system load

2012-06-20 Thread Michael Baydoun
puppet kick from your master after you make a change -- 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...@goog

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Baydoun
= /classes.txt > > localconfig = /localconfig > > report = true > reports = log > server = puppet.example.com > > debug = true > verbose = true > logdest = /var/log/puppet/puppet.log > > Thanks, > John > > John Kennedy > > >

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging

2012-05-04 Thread Michael Baydoun
Can you post your full puppet.conf? Redact anything sensitive. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Kennedy wrote: > Nope... > Thanks, > John > > John Kennedy > > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Michael Baydoun wrote: > >> Is your daemon starte

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging

2012-05-04 Thread Michael Baydoun
Is your daemon started with a different --logdest=/path/file specified? On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:45 AM, John Kennedy wrote: > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bernd Adamowicz < > bernd.adamow...@esailors.de> wrote: > >> You should try >> >> ** ** >> >> debug = true >> >

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Baydoun
Do you have reports=log in your puppet.conf? On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM, John Kennedy wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to write a script that will check logs for puppet errors to > use in a nagios check. I am checking /var/log/messages (RHEL6) but when > puppet runs on its 30 minute interv

Re: [Puppet Users] Host/Agent should not install if there are no changes in file

2012-04-26 Thread Michael Baydoun
> > in my puppet manifests/nodes.pp > I have defined several stages e.g. > > nodes.pp > > stage { > "stop_service": ; > } > > node mynode.com { >include filecheck, myapp > } > > What I need is if filecheck fails, then execution

Re: [Puppet Users] Host/Agent should not install if there are no changes in file

2012-04-25 Thread Michael Baydoun
The file ensure for the tar file should only download when it changes The untar can have a require on the file resource, and so on Can you post your file resource and untar exec resource? On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Suresh wrote: > Can you guys please help me address this host configuratio

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Analysing some puppetmaster logs to find out what's happening on an agent

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Baydoun
Maybe you could use puppet to configure send to a remote syslog. If that works, you could then add your problem module back, and get visibility to exactly what the client is doing, and any errors it is seeing. Or make some small modification to the existing log file on the remote server, with fil

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using puppet for release management?

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Baydoun
I agree with Justin, we use controltier (essentially rundeck) for this. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Justin Ellison wrote: > IMO, Puppet isn't quite the right fit for application deployments in a lot > of situations. In Drupal-speak - if you have multiple Drupal frontends > with a shared MyS