Puppet client runs outside of office hours

[kdo]

anyone have any smart ideas around scheduling puppet client runs during specific times ? such as outside of office hours ?

any options that can be set in the puppet.conf for example ?

[Chris O'Donnell]

Run puppet agent via cron. Add in a random delay so that all the clients don't hit the server at the same time. I use the following script and set to run every 30 minutes:

#!/bin/bash

# Grab a random value between 0-1740 (29 minutes).

value=$RANDOM

while [ $value -gt 1740 ] ; do

  value=$RANDOM

done

# Sleep for that time.

sleep $value

# do puppet run

/usr/bin/puppet agent -t