Hi John, Thanks for your suggestion. In our setup, puppet cron is managed by system crontab via a script and with no-daemonize option.For now, I will divide the nodes and run them bi-hourly. In the meantime, I will follow the example bunch on the setting up cron for puppet from here,
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Cron_Patterns ------- On Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:04:08 AM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:39:02 PM UTC-5, iamauser wrote: >> >> Almost 4-5% of the total number of nodes are not receiving catalog from >> the master on an hourly run. We have about 250 nodes. The nodes that are >> receiving this error are rather random. The hourly cron happens almost at >> the same time. Is there any configuration changes for Puppet that can be >> done to avoid this ? >> >> Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: execution >> expired >> >> Puppet (notice): Using cached catalog >> >> /File[secure_host] (err): Could not evaluate: Connection reset by peer - >> SSL_connect Could not retrieve file metadata for >> puppet:///modules/certs/<filename>: Connection reset by peer - SSL_connect >> >> > It sounds like you are pushing your master's capacity limit. If your > clients are all trying to check in at about the same time then you should > be able to make more efficient use of your available resources by spreading > the client check-ins more evenly over time. > > Supposing that your Puppet cron jobs are managed by Puppet, you can make > use of Puppet's built-in fqdn_rand() function to help generate launch times > for your cron jobs that will be consistent on each node, but randomly > varying from node to node. If you were running the agent in daemon mode > then the --splay option/parameter would address the same problem. > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
