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LEARNING PUPPET

You're reading from   LEARNING PUPPET Build intelligent software stacks with the Puppet configuration management suite

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399832
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Puppet Development in Isolation FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Packages in Puppet 3. My First Puppet Module 4. Monitoring Your Web Server 5. Load Balancing the Cluster 6. Scaling Up the Puppet Environment 7. Making the Configuration Dynamic 8. Extending Puppet 9. The Puppet Enterprise Console 10. Troubleshooting Puppet Index

Using Live Management


Live Management is a powerful Puppet Enterprise component that enables you to send commands to the Puppet Agent nodes. Perhaps the most useful feature of Live Management is called runonce, which enables you to trigger the Puppet run on a group of Puppet agents without having to log on to nodes and initiating the puppet agent -t command from the command line. Let's take a look at how to access Live Management and trigger the Puppet run on the web-clone.development.vm node.

The link to Live Management is located in the navigation menu at the top of the Puppet Enterprise Console view as shown in the following screenshot:

When you click on the Live Management menu, Puppet Enterprise automatically runs a node discovery task, and displays the results in the Node Filter Results view on the left-hand side of the page. On my machine, Puppet Enterprise discovered two nodes: learning.puppetlabs.vm and web-clone.development.vm.

Note

If the Puppet Enterprise discovers more nodes, such...

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