On Monday, September 2, 2013 12:01:46 PM UTC-4, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > > How can this be randomized within a range? > > I believe someone mentioned "splay" ? > > My fear is that all the boxes will request at a similar some day, by chance > and send a tidal wave over to the master. > > On Sep 1, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Rahul Khengare <rahul...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > You can use different *runinterval *for each client. > This can be done using editing of "/etc/puppet/puppet.conf" on each > client machine. > Set the following (add a new line if it's not already present) > in the [agent] section of the file: > > runinterval=XXX > > where, XXX is the time in seconds(default is 180), > > Thanks and Regards, > Rahul Khengare, > NTT DATA OSS Center, Pune, India. > > > On Friday, August 30, 2013 2:20:36 AM UTC+5:30, rjbu...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> How do I avoid a situation where all of my Linux servers execute a >> service restart at the same time upon receiving a new configuration change >> via Puppet? I am trying to avoid any possibility that the service would be >> unavailable for any length of time. The servers are behind a load >> balancer. At least one node needs to remain available. Any idea how I >> might configure Puppet to work in this HA environment? >> >> Thank you for your feedback! >> > It is pretty common to run the puppet agent from cron as opposed to daemon mode. From there you can randomize when the agent runs using the fqdn as a seed with the fqdn_rand[1] function. Here is an example[2] of this in a manifest.
[1] - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#fqdnrand [2] - https://github.com/ghoneycutt/puppet-module-puppet/blob/master/manifests/agent.pp#L57 Best regards, -g -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
