Todd Kirkland
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Puppet and JetPatch Description
JetPatch's unique management container technology virtualizes agent-based and agentless tools into services, and abstracts standard tool operations via REST-APIs. Read more about JetPatch a...
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Why Integrate Puppet and JetPatch?
The Puppet and JetPatch technologies provide different areas of focus: The focus of Puppet is on the installation and configuration of servers and application components such as web servers, middl...
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Puppet and JetPatch Similarities and Differences
On the surface, Puppet and JetPatch have some similar capabilities. Notably, Puppet and JetPatch can both be used to deploy server management tool agents to individual servers. However, IT ...
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Approach 1: Management Services Are Configured and Controlled with Puppet through JetPatch
In the first approach, management services are configured and controlled with the Puppet master server, as is normally the case. However instead of forcing users to develop Puppet modules f...
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Approach 2: Management Services Are Configured and Controlled With JetPatch According To Puppet-Controlled Tags
In the second approach, there is a more clear-cut separation of control between Puppet and JetPatch. Puppet handles the state of server and application components, and JetPatch handles the ...
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Comparison of the Two Approaches
In Approach 1, the choice of management services to be deployed to each server is managed through Puppet. The advantage in this approach is that server automation teams can control both the...
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Summary: Puppet and JetPatch Integration
Integrating JetPatch and Puppet allows IT organizations to streamline their processes towards the optimal DevOps environment, with Puppet taking care of simple server and application config...
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Known Limitations of Puppet Integration
If DNS is not configured in the customer environment, then the hosts file on the back-end server should have Agent IP/Hostname listed. Configuring the hosts file on the back-end server is ...
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Health Script Description
Windows: Run agent self-test via its CLI (puppet agent –test) Check if agent established connection with back-end server(netstat -aof) Check log of native agent for any errors Linux (RHEL and U...
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Prerequisites
Understanding the Management Tool Before creating a managed agent, collect information on the original, conventional (non-virtual) management tool. You will need to answer the following que...