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.SH SYNOPSIS
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Trigger a puppet agent run on a set of hosts.
.SH USAGE
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.B puppet kick [\-a|\-\-all] [\-c|\-\-class <class>] [\-d|\-\-debug] [\-f|\-\-foreground]
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[\-h|\-\-help] [\-\-host <host>] [\-\-no\-fqdn] [\-\-ignoreschedules]
[\-t|\-\-tag <tag>] [\-\-test] [\-p|\-\-ping] <host> [<host> [...]]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This script can be used to connect to a set of machines running +puppet
agent+ and trigger them to run their configurations. The most common
usage would be to specify a class of hosts and a set of tags, and
+puppet kick+ would look up in LDAP all of the hosts matching that
class, then connect to each host and trigger a run of all of the objects
with the specified tags.
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If you are not storing your host configurations in LDAP, you can specify
hosts manually.
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You will most likely have to run +puppet kick+ as root to get access to
the SSL certificates.
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+puppet kick+ reads +puppet master+\(aqs configuration file, so that it can
copy things like LDAP settings.
.SH USAGE NOTES
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+puppet kick+ is useless unless +puppet agent+ is listening. See its
documentation for more information, but the gist is that you must enable
+listen+ on the +puppet agent+ daemon, either using +\-\-listen+ on the
command line or adding \(aqlisten: true\(aq in its config file. In addition,
you need to set the daemons up to specifically allow connections by
creating the +namespaceauth+ file, normally at
\(aq/etc/puppet/namespaceauth.conf\(aq. This file specifies who has access to
each namespace; if you create the file you must add every namespace you
want any Puppet daemon to allow \-\- it is currently global to all Puppet
daemons.
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An example file looks like this:
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[fileserver]
    allow *.madstop.com

[puppetmaster]
    allow *.madstop.com

[puppetrunner]
    allow culain.madstop.com
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.fi
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This is what you would install on your Puppet master; non\-master hosts
could leave off the \(aqfileserver\(aq and \(aqpuppetmaster\(aq namespaces.
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Expect more documentation on this eventually.
.SH OPTIONS
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Note that any configuration parameter that\(aqs valid in the configuration
file is also a valid long argument. For example, \(aqssldir\(aq is a valid
configuration parameter, so you can specify \(aq\-\-ssldir <directory>\(aq as an
argument.
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See the configuration file documentation at
\fI\%http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/reference/configref.html\fP for
the full list of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all
configuration options can also be generated by running puppet master
with \(aq\-\-genconfig\(aq.
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.B all:             Connect to all available hosts. Requires LDAP support
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at this point.
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.B class:           Specify a class of machines to which to connect. This
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only works if you have LDAP configured, at the moment.
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debug:           Enable full debugging.
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.B foreground:      Run each configuration in the foreground; that is, when
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connecting to a host, do not return until the host has
finished its run. The default is false.
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help:            Print this help message
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.B host:            A specific host to which to connect. This flag can be
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specified more than once.
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.B ignoreschedules: Whether the client should ignore schedules when running
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its configuration. This can be used to force the client
to perform work it would not normally perform so soon.
The default is false.
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.B parallel:        How parallel to make the connections. Parallelization
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is provided by forking for each client to which to
connect. The default is 1, meaning serial execution.
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.B tag:             Specify a tag for selecting the objects to apply. Does
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not work with the \-\-test option.
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.B test:            Print the hosts you would connect to but do not
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actually connect. This option requires LDAP support at
this point.
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ping:
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Do a ICMP echo against the target host. Skip hosts that don\(aqt respond to ping.
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.SH EXAMPLE
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sudo puppet kick \-p 10 \-t remotefile \-t webserver host1 host2
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.SH AUTHOR
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Luke Kanies
.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2005 Reductive Labs, LLC Licensed under the GNU Public
License
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