Archive for the ‘puppet’ Category

Linux:How to force puppet client to download updates from puppet server

Friday, September 17th, 2010

By default puppetd (puppet server) applies the client configuration; in 1800 seconds. If you have some emergency updates which has to be apply to every puppet clients instanly , you can do followings : (a) puppetrun (This commands run from the puppet server) SYNOPSIS Trigger a puppetd run on a set of hosts.   USAGE [...]

How to install puppet in server and client

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Ref :  http://docs.reductivelabs.com/guides/installation.html#open_firewall_ports_on_server_and_client How to install puppet Client: If yum can not find puppet software you can add bellow repo : http://fosiul.com/index.php/2009/12/yum-repo-list-for-centos/ after adding repos (a) yum install puppet( to install puppet client rpm) (b) edit /etc/puppet/puppetd.conf  and add references of puppet server server = puppet-server.companydomain.com (c)  /usr/sbin/puppetd –verbose  ( Start the client for the [...]