06-21-2010
Re: cfengine / puppet for rhel servers
I have a personal preference for cfengine over puppet, because its way more powerful although being the most versatile and scalable technology of this kind.
You can have an overview of Cfengine 3 here :
Managing configuration with Cfengine 3: concepts & theories Normation Blog
You should also register to their website: you'll find many resources there, including Cfengine (2, 3 and Nova) binary packages for Cfengine for almost every linux distro and unix flavor.
Regards,
Nico
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puppet-device
PUPPET-DEVICE(8) Puppet manual PUPPET-DEVICE(8)
NAME
puppet-device - Manage remote network devices
SYNOPSIS
Retrieves all configurations from the puppet master and apply them to the remote devices configured in /etc/puppet/device.conf.
Currently must be run out periodically, using cron or something similar.
USAGE
puppet device [-d|--debug] [--detailed-exitcodes] [-V|--version]
[-h|--help] [-l|--logdest syslog|<file>|console]
[-v|--verbose] [-w|--waitforcert <seconds>]
DESCRIPTION
Once the client has a signed certificate for a given remote device, it will retrieve its configuration and apply it.
USAGE NOTES
One need a /etc/puppet/device.conf file with the following content:
[remote.device.fqdn] type type url url
where: * type: the current device type (the only value at this time is cisco) * url: an url allowing to connect to the device
Supported url must conforms to: scheme://user:password@hostname/?query
with: * scheme: either ssh or telnet * user: username, can be omitted depending on the switch/router configuration * password: the connec-
tion password * query: this is device specific. Cisco devices supports an enable parameter whose value would be the enable password.
OPTIONS
Note that any configuration parameter that's valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument. For example, 'server' is a
valid configuration parameter, so you can specify '--server servername' as an argument.
--debug
Enable full debugging.
--detailed-exitcodes
Provide transaction information via exit codes. If this is enabled, an exit code of '2' means there were changes, an exit code of
'4' means there were failures during the transaction, and an exit code of '6' means there were both changes and failures.
--help Print this help message
--logdest
Where to send messages. Choose between syslog, the console, and a log file. Defaults to sending messages to syslog, or the console
if debugging or verbosity is enabled.
--verbose
Turn on verbose reporting.
--waitforcert
This option only matters for daemons that do not yet have certificates and it is enabled by default, with a value of 120 (seconds).
This causes +puppet agent+ to connect to the server every 2 minutes and ask it to sign a certificate request. This is useful for the
initial setup of a puppet client. You can turn off waiting for certificates by specifying a time of 0.
EXAMPLE
$ puppet device --server puppet.domain.com
AUTHOR
Brice Figureau
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Labs, LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License
Puppet Labs, LLC June 2012 PUPPET-DEVICE(8)