Does puppet control network settings?

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Created by: ROD TAGUCHI on 25-10-2011 09:24:40 AM
I am trying to manually set some network settings with additional route statements.  They keep getting overwritten. I believe that puppet is 'fixing' the ip route settings.  Where in the DB would I create additional route statements?

Thanks, Rod

Subject: RE: Does puppet control network settings?
Replied by: Mohsin Ali on 31-10-2011 11:49:15 PM
Hi Rod,

You need to logon with admin username and password. Setup the ip/route  changes needed and save and exit. Below example shows how to setup default gateway

login: admin
password: Password you setup during installation
conf t
ip default-gateway x.x.x.x
end
wr mem
reload

HTH,

Mo

Subject: RE: Does puppet control network settings?
Replied by: ROD TAGUCHI on 01-11-2011 01:54:26 AM
Mohsin Ali,  will the new setting 'stick' after reboots? Thanks, Rod

Subject: RE: Does puppet control network settings?
Replied by: Christopher Chandler on 17-11-2011 10:48:55 AM

I am trying to manually set some network settings with additional route statements.  They keep getting overwritten. I believe that puppet is 'fixing' the ip route settings.  Where in the DB would I create additional route statements?

Thanks, Rod

 
Mo's response is correct. There are a handful of OS-level settings that we revert back to the as-installed settings (going off of memory here, but I think items in resolv.conf, network config [IP addresses, default GW, etc], etc). But, this is not done by puppet. Puppet only manages application-level config (e.g.: portal-ext.properties, etc) - and it's only a handful of files. 
 
in other words, Puppet only manages a small subset of files specific to the application running on that node (WebEx Social, ActiveMQ, MongoDB, etc). 
 
Hope that helps!
 

Cheers,
Chris