>> This is the world I see, it won't affect everyone though and >> theoretically with 1 hour check-ins it will be solved next run. My >> fear is more around those that don't run puppet as often. > > Oh. I was under the impression most people run Puppet at least every half > hour, if not even more often. I'm likely off the target by a few hours > though.
This certainly is becoming more and more true over time, but it wasn't always that way at all, in fact quite the opposite. Not to mention new users may be less interested in running regularly due to wariness of the technology. In short we cater for both cases where we can. >> So because there was no environment awareness, all resources from all >> environments would be sent to PuppetDB with no environment being >> marked. As a consequence, no matter what environment you were >> collecting from all resources on that PuppetDB instance were thus up >> for collection. Without work-arounds (like what Spencer mentioned) you >> may potentially collect both test and prod resources (for example) >> that represented the same Type/Title combination thus creating a >> duplicate resource. > > Ah. Interestingly enough I never ran into this. Kinda makes me wonder if > that's just dumb luck. I'd be curious to hear why you think it succeeded. Like you say probably just lucky. Also, the less you are using collected resources, the chance of hitting it decreases. > I'm all for only collection from the environment you're from but there needs > to be a way to override this. No matter the environment I still want all my > machines monitored by my Nagios instance which happens to be running on the > production environment. I concur with the sentiments and I think the crowd has spoken. I'm pretty sure we'll just add a configuration option for this. ken. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAE4bNTmvCB0kZUqxjn4WbsNNSGtmXJjBL3FoO9PqOBEr4sOPXA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
