Add a new machine

In this section, you will see:

  • How to manage a new machine with Rudder

  • What does the Rudder server knows about managed nodes

In the demo platform, you have two nodes:

  • The server we already used

  • A node machine

If you used Vagrant to create the platform, it has provisoned the node by:

  • installing rudder-agent

  • configuring agent in defining Rudder server’s ip with $ rudder agent policy-server <rudder-server_ip>

  • sending to Rudder server node’s inventory with $ rudder agent inventory

An inventory contains hardware and software information about a node. It is sent to register the node to the server after agent installation, and then gets updated daily (during the night, at a random time).

You can manually trigger an inventory with $ rudder agent inventory.

Let’s accept our node:

  1. go to Pending nodes

  2. check the displayed node

  3. Accept

Accept new node

As a configuration has already been created and applied to all nodes managed by Rudder, it will be applied directly to the newly accepted node within 5 minutes. It includes the two directives we defined before.

Let’s have a look at its inventory:

  • go to Nodes. You can see two nodes displayed.

  • click on your node hostname node.rudder.local

  • switch to the Inventory tab

You can navigate through the tabs, to see OS, software and hardware information.


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