Re: [Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

2014-07-07 Thread Roger Sherman
Hi Den, and thank you for the response. There is some data that will need to be rsynced, but mostly it's drawing from mysql nodes, and not storing or creating data itself. One issue, though, that I wonder if just copying and pasting into the spare nodes manifest - I need the hostname to change

Re: [Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

2014-07-07 Thread jcbollinger
On Monday, July 7, 2014 8:01:18 AM UTC-5, Roger Sherman wrote: Hi Den, and thank you for the response. There is some data that will need to be rsynced, but mostly it's drawing from mysql nodes, and not storing or creating data itself. One issue, though, that I wonder if just copying and

Re: [Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

2014-07-07 Thread Roger Sherman
Thanks John, I think that answers the rest of my question. I'm actually doing this in stages - the critical node is worker3.blahblah.com, so I'm making spare.blahblah.com into worker4.blahblah.com (with the critical services not started), then I'll be rsyncing, and then shutting down worker3,

Re: [Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

2014-07-06 Thread Denmat
Hi Roger, Yes you can copy the critical node configuration into the spare node's. However, it really does depend on what that critical node does and any special requirements it has. It may have services that might need to be managed across one by one. Or it may require one node to be shutdown