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Node Management
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Node Management
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Node Inventory
Accept new Nodes
Search Nodes
Quick Search
Advanced Search
Group of Nodes
Contents
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Introduction
Concepts
Rudder functions
Asset management concepts
New Nodes
Search Nodes
Groups of Nodes
Configuration management concepts
Rudder components
Specifications for Rudder Nodes
Specifications for Rudder Root Server
Hardware specifications
Supported Operating Systems
Packages
Software dependencies and third party components
Configure the network
Mandatory flows
Optional flows
DNS - Name resolution
Install Rudder Server
Install Rudder Root server on Debian or Ubuntu
Add the Rudder packages repository
Java on Debian/Ubuntu
Install your Rudder Root Server
Compatibility with RHEL/CentOS 5 and syslogd
Install Rudder Root server on SLES
Configure the package manager
Add the Rudder packages repository
Install your Rudder Root Server
Install Rudder Root server on RedHat or CentOS
Java on RHEL/CentOS
Add the Rudder packages repository
Install your Rudder Root Server
Initial configuration of your Rudder Root Server
Validate the installation
Install Rudder Agent
Install Rudder Agent on Debian or Ubuntu
Install Rudder Agent on RedHat or CentOS
Install Rudder Agent on SLES
Configure and validate
Configure Rudder Agent
Start Rudder Agent:
Validate new Node
Force Rudder Agent execution
Upgrade Rudder
Caution cases
Upgrading from Rudder 2.8 or 2.9
Upgrading from Rudder 2.6 or 2.7
Known bugs
Upgrade Rudder on Debian or Ubuntu
Upgrade Rudder on RedHat or CentOS
Upgrade Rudder on SLES
Rudder Web Interface
Authentication
Presentation of Rudder Web Interface
Rudder Home
Node Management
Configuration Management
Administration
Units supported as search parameters
Bytes and multiples
Convenience notation
Supported units
Node Management
Node Inventory
Accept new Nodes
Search Nodes
Quick Search
Advanced Search
Group of Nodes
Configuration Management
Techniques
Concepts
Manage the Techniques
Available Techniques
Application management
Distributing files
File state configuration
System settings: Miscellaneous
System settings: Networking
System settings: Process
System settings: Remote access
System settings: User management
Directives
Rules
Parameters
Compliance
Validation workflow in Rudder
What is a Change request ?
Change request status
Change request management page
Change request detail page
How to create a Change request ?
How to validate a Change request ?
Roles
Self Validations
Change request and conflicts
Notifications:
Pending change requests
Change already proposed on Rule/Directive/Group
Administration
Archives
Archive usecases
Changes testing
Changes qualification
Concepts
Archiving
Importing configuration
Deploy a preconfigured instance
Event Logs
Policy Server
Configure allowed networks
Clear caches
Reload dynamic groups
Plugins
Install a plugin
Basic administration of Rudder services
Restart the agent of the node
Restart the root rudder service
Restart everything
Restart only one component
Technique upgrade
Initial installation
Upgrade
Upgrading the Technique library
Password upgrade
User management
Configuration of the users using a XML file
Generality
Passwords
Configuring an LDAP authentication provider for Rudder
LDAP is only for authentication
Enable LDAP authentication
Authorization management
Pre-defined roles
Custom roles
Going further
Usecases
Dynamic groups by operating system
Library of preventive policies
Standardizing configurations
Advanced usage
Node management
Reinitialize policies for a Node
Installation of the Rudder Agent
Static files
Generated files
Services
Configuration
Rudder Agent interactive
Processing new inventories on the server
Verify the inventory has been received by the Rudder Root Server
Process incoming inventories
Validate new Nodes
Prepare policies for the Node
Agent execution frequency on nodes
Checking configuration (CFEngine)
Inventory (FusionInventory)
Password management
Configuration of the postgres database password
Configuration of the OpenLDAP manager password
Configuration of the WebDAV access password
Policy generation
Regenerate now button
Technique creation
Prequisites
Define your objective
Initialize your new Technique
Define variables
First test in the Rudder interface
Implement the behavior
Read in the variables from Rudder
Add reporting
REST API
Default setup
Rudder Authentication
Apache access rules
User for REST actions
Status
Promises regeneration
Dynamic groups regeneration
Technique library reload
Archives manipulation
Archiving:
Listing:
Restoring a given archive:
Restoring the latest available archive (from a previously archived action, and so from a Git tag):
Restoring the latest available commit (use Git HEAD):
Downloading a ZIP archive
Relay servers
Installation procedure - On the relay
Install Rudder agent
Install the required dependencies and enable required modules
Create the necessary directory and adjust the permissions
Please create the appropriate file for your OS, and copy the following content in it
Installation procedure - On the root server
Set the node as a Rudder relay
Result
Adding nodes to a relay server
Server migration
What files you need
Handle configuration files
Copy /var/rudder/configuration-repository
Use Archive feature of Rudder
Handle CFEngine keys
Keep your CFEngine keys
Change CFEngine keys
On your nodes
Mirroring Rudder repositories
Reference
Rudder Server data workflow
Rudder Agent workflow
Request data from Rudder Server
Launch processes
Identify Rudder Root Server
Inventory
Syslog
Apply Directives
Configuration files for a Node
Configuration files for Rudder Server
Handbook
Database maintenance
Automatic PostgreSQL table maintenance
PostgreSQL database vacuum
LDAP database reindexing
Migration, backups and restores
Backup
Restore
Migration
Application tuning
Apache HTTPd
Jetty
Java "Out Of Memory Error"
Configure RAM allocated to Jetty
Optimize PostgreSQL server
Suggested values on an high end server
Suggested values on a low end server
CFEngine
Appendix: Glossary
License
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