puppet agent heartbeat

[moons...@gmail.com]

is there any way we can check the heartbeat of puppet agents?

and if agent is down can puppet try to bring up the server. 

Thanks,

[John Gelnaw]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 10:37:46 AM UTC-5, moons...@gmail.com wrote:

is there any way we can check the heartbeat of puppet agents?

and if agent is down can puppet try to bring up the server. 

It may be a bit primitive, but I've been using crontab to "manually" run the puppet agent.  

I use the fqdn_rand() function to pick a number between 1-30, then set a crontab with that minute, and that minute+30, as the times to run.  Does a nice job of distributing the agent load across my enterprise. 

 $r1 = fqdn_rand(30)
 $r2 = $r1 + 30

 cron { 'puppet-agent':
   ensure  => present,
   user    => root,
   minute  => [$r1, $r2],
   environment => 'MAILTO=""',
   command => "/usr/bin/puppet agent --test --environment $puppetEnvironment",
 }

[Angel L. Mateo]

El 17/02/16 a las 17:12, John Gelnaw escribió:

I have something similar to this, but instead of running the agent in
onetime mode, I start the daemon if it is not running. The command I run
in the cron is:

/etc/init.d/puppet status > /dev/null 2>&1 || /etc/init.d/puppet start

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