Santanu pointed out to me that this *used* to be the way we did it - now
puppet applies the update automatically (unfortunately the WN I looked
at still had the cron job in place - I will get the hang of this stuff
eventually :-( ).
John
On 18/06/2012 13:22, John Hill wrote:
> At Cambridge we have a cron job which applies any update - it runs every
> 5th day (presumably to try and avoid the issue mentioned below - though
> it isn't a complete solution if the timing is unfortunate). Our local
> Nagios monitoring also checks whether an update is available.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On 18/06/2012 12:49, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to understand how people update their lcg-CA. At the moment in
>> Manchester the update is semi-automatic in the sense that cfengine does
>> it but the version is fixed. The reason we did it like this was because
>> automatic updates done too soon generated alerts from the SAM/nagios
>> tests because the tests misinterpreted the update as wrong version.
>> However it still requires someone to be there and do it and to pay
>> attention to the broadcasts. Has the behaviour of the tests changed? Are
>> people doing it automatically?
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
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