Hi,
You can run the master in debug mode and it will show you where puppet is
looking for the hiera files.
Give it a whirl,
Den
On 04/03/2013, at 22:49, Jonathan Gazeley <jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk>
wrote:
> I'm setting up Hiera in my multi-environment puppetmaster for the first time.
>
> I've written /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml, defined the hierarchies and created a
> couple of data files with sample data in them. When queried from the
> commandline, it works:
>
> [jg4461@puppet ~]$ hiera -d -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml motd::banner
> environment=netops_jg4461
> DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Hiera YAML backend starting
> DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Looking up motd::banner in YAML backend
> DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Looking for data source netops_jg4461
> DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Found motd::banner in netops_jg4461
> MOTD BANNER for NETOPS
>
>
> However, when I try to reference this variable in a manifest with syntax like
> this:
>
> class motd {
> file { 'motd':
> name => '/etc/motd',
> mode => '0644',
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> content => hiera('motd::banner'),
> }
> }
>
> It fails with this error:
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Could not find data item motd::banner in any Hiera data file and no default
> supplied at
> /home/jg4461/PUPPETROOT/environments/common/modules/motd/manifests/init.pp:7
> on node ******.bris.ac.uk
>
> My hiera.yaml points to the right location (the puppet dev environment is
> being served from my homedir on the puppetmaster but all hiera data is stored
> in /etc/puppet/hiera, with the production puppet environment).
>
> What kind of things should I be looking for here?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
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