Manage_reboot_notify.rst

HOWTO Manage reboot_notify

simplib::reboot_notify was added to provide a capability for notifying users, across puppet runs, that their system needed to be rebooted.

It was originally created due to updates to kernel settings requiring a reboot but discovering that users would often forget to reboot unless a message continued to appear in front of them.

Disabling Reboot Notifications

Technically, reboot notifications cannot be excluded from the puppet catalog. However, you can silence them by setting simplib::reboot_notify::log_level to the level of your choosing.

For instance, setting the following via :term:`Hiera` will ensure that you only see log messages when running in debug mode:

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simplib::reboot_notify::log_level: debug

You may use any values that are valid for the puppet loglevel metaparameter.