How to setup Puppet agent run interval at a specific time?

[staceyt...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I am using puppet 3.7.3.

I want my puppet agent to run twice a day, so in puppet.conf, I set runinterval:

#  This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days(2d), or years (5y)
     runinterval = 12h

However, how could I setup the puppet agent run to happen at a specific time?
For example, 2:00am and 2:00pm respectively?

Now it seems random. And whenever the machine is rebooted, it will run puppet agent.

Thanks,
Zaiwen

[Christopher Wood]

Set your puppet agent to not start as boot, and have a cron job starting an agent run at the desired time.

Make sure you don't have too many agents hitting your puppetmaster simultaneously, the fqdn_rand() function will help here.

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[Garrett Honeycutt]

Hi Zaiwen,

The easiest way to manage when and how your agent runs is through cron.
Highly recommend running in that fashion.

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[staceyt...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot for the reply. I will implement a cron job for that.