Retiring information from collections

[Maarten Thibaut]

Hi,

The docs on collections do not mention how information is "retired" from the puppetmaster (see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html).

To use the example in the above doc, suppose host "foo" is added. We setup a collector to monitor it through nagios on running on host "bar".

We now retire host "foo". Nagios keeps complaining about "foo" being down. How do I "zero out" the information about "foo"?

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maarten

[Calvin Walton]

If you're using puppetdb, you can run the following command:
# puppet node deactivate foo.example.com

This is documented at
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/1/maintain_and_tune.html#deactivate-decommissioned-nodes

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Calvin Walton <calvin...@kepstin.ca>