run puppet-agent once per day specific range time.

[Ren]

Hey everyone, 

I am looking the best way to implement overall puppet-agent (v4.9.2) to run only once per day during a specific time. 

ie:  between 4 hours  > 8 hours.

what do you suggest? should I go with to implement a cron type or something using a funciton schedule? 

Do you have any examples? 

Thank you very much . 

-r 

[Martin Alfke]

Hi

> On 20. Mar 2018, at 10:49, Ren <tutelac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
>
> I am looking the best way to implement overall puppet-agent (v4.9.2) to run only once per day during a specific time.
> ie: between 4 hours > 8 hours.
>
> what do you suggest? should I go with to implement a cron type or something using a funciton schedule?

I would go for cron entry.
The schedule type and parameter is only used when a puppet agent is running.

Best,
Martin

[Andreas Zuber]

Hi

We use something like this to distribute cron jobs over a specified
time interval:

define cron::interval(
$ensure = present,
$start_hour = undef,
$length = '60', # interval length in minutes
$comment = undef,
$command = undef,
$user = 'root',
){

$minutes_from_start = fqdn_rand($length)
$minutes_remainder = $minutes_from_start % 60
$additional_hours = ( $minutes_from_start - $minutes_remainder ) / 60

# calculate the real values for the cronjob
$cron_hour = ( $start_hour + $additional_hours ) % 24
$cron_minute = $minutes_remainder

cron{$name:
ensure => $ensure,
command => $command,
user => $user,
hour => $cron_hour,
minute => $cron_minute,
}
}


# Use it like this to run puppet

cron::interval{'early_puppet_run':
start_hour => 5,
length => 120,
comment => 'run puppet early in the morning form 5 to 7',
command => '/opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --test --color false'
}

Regards
Andreas

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[Renato]

Thank you very much!

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