I don't get how any of your points are relevant to my issue. I never said that I'm trying to run Hiera on my client. I have a puppet module with templates, and the variables in my template are looked up in Hiera on my Puppet Master server. My client is unable to apply the module because it isn't getting a valid answer back for those variables from the Puppet Master server, which I assume means that Hiera is not giving it a valid answer to pass to the client.
I realize that Hiera and Facter are two separate entities, I am using Facter facts to organize my information in Hiera and I was illustrating that in my post. On Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:30:34 AM UTC-7, Ygor wrote: > > I believe you are missing a basic concept: Hiera is for the puppet > MASTER, not the agent/client. > > From http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/installing.html#installing-hiera > > Installing Hiera > > If you are using Hiera with Puppet, you should install it on your puppet > master server(s); it is optional and unnecessary on agent nodes. (If you > are using a standalone puppet apply site, every node should have Hiera.) > > Also, hiera and facter are two distinctly different beasties. You can use > facter-facts in your heirarchy definitions to organize your data, but info > from hiera is different from info from facter. Facter operates at the > agent/client level while hiera is at the puppet-master level. > > HTH > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric" <cam...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > To: puppet...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:34:20 PM > Subject: [Puppet Users] hiera can't see a value on a puppet client, but > the hiera app on the server can > > > When I run puppet on a client it says it can't find a parameter in hiera, > but If I run the hiera application on my puppet master and give it the same > facts that my client has, it finds them just fine. Why is that? > > > Here's how my client sees itself: > > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep region > region => northamerica > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep datacenter > datacenter => sjc > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep environment > environment => qa > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep machinetype > machinetype => tag > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep hostname > hostname => tag5-4-qa-sjc > > I run puppet and get this error: > > err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: > Could not find data item ak_auth_primary in any Hiera data file and no > default supplied at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:11 on node > tag5-4-qa-sjc.domain.net > > on my puppet master server: > > $ hiera ak_auth_primary region=northamerica datacenter=sjc environment=qa > > Answer: ops1-1-qa-sjc > > $ hiera ak_auth_primary region=northamerica datacenter=sjc environment=qa > machinetype=tag hostname=tag5-4-qa-sjc > > Answer: ops1-1-qa-sjc > > Is it because I'm using an older version of Puppet with Hiera? I'm not > quite ready to upgrade to version 3 yet, but I plan to. > > [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# rpm -qa | grep puppet > puppet-2.7.14-1.el6.noarch > > user@puppet-server$ sudo rpm -qa | egrep '(puppet|hiera)' > puppet-2.7.12-1.el6.noarch > puppet-dashboard-1.2.6-1.el6.noarch > hiera-1.2.1-1.el5.noarch > puppet-server-2.7.12-1.el6.noarch > hiera-puppet-1.0.0-1.el5.noarch > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
