Puppet-Module for configuring Puppet itself, both the master and the clients ============================================================================ Use a seperate local module called "site-puppet", where you place your customized files, under: site-puppet/files/master/fileserver.conf site-puppet/files/master/puppet.conf Usage ===== The module currently looks for values on different variables to adjust configuration of the master. Run puppet by cron: ------------------- By default puppet runs as its own daemon. However, you might want to run puppet by cron. To do this, you have to include `puppet::cron` instead of `puppet`. If you include puppet::cron then by default puppet will run twice an hour, spread amongst the half an hour depending on the host's fqdn. If you wish to change that interval, you can tweak $puppet_crontime (NOTE: this variable only operates on the minute cron field). Clientbucket cleanup: --------------------- The individual node client buckets aren't cleaned up automatically, unless you specify $puppet_cleanup_clientbucket = 'X', where X is the number of days you want to keep clientbucket files for. Puppetmaster Mode: ------------------ If you want to run the puppetmaster in a non-webrick based mode, you can set $puppetmaster_mode either to: * passenger, run puppetmaster as a passenger application, you will need the passenger module to take advantage of this * cluster, run puppetmaster as a mongrel based cluster In both cases you have to setup the appropriate frontends (apache vhost configuration/nginx vhost configuration) on your own. Reports cleanup: --------------- By default we clean up reports older than 30 days. If you want to change that, you can set $puppetmaster_cleanup_reports to one of the following values: * 'X', where X is the amount of days you want to keep reports for * false, to disable reports cleanup Check last run: --------------- We can check on the last run state of certain clients, to check whether they still check in. You can do that by setting the following variables: $puppetmaster_lastruncheck_cron * any cron time: '20 10,22 * * *' to run the script at a certain time by cron. Default: 40 10 * * * * false: to disable check for last run You will need the cron module to take advantage of this functionality. Stored configs: --------------- If you want to use storedconfigs on your puppetmaster, then you will want to also be using the mysql module, and then you will need to "include puppet::puppetmaster::storeconfigs". Example: -------- in your site.pp, i.e. : $puppet_crontime = "0,12 * * * *" include puppet::cron $puppetmaster_mode = 'passenger' include puppet::puppetmaster $puppet_storeconfig_password="..." include puppet::puppetmaster::storeconfigs