Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet, Yum, Cassandra, openjdk and --nodeps

On 30 Jul 2013 18:57, "Paul Pham" wrote: > Do most folks who use puppet not use yum? Or are most people okay with letting puppet install dependencies automagically? Puppet has different package providers and I use the appropriate one depending on what I want it to do. If I want Puppet to just in

Re: [Puppet Users] Debugging Puppetmaster with Apache/Rack/Passenger

I believe the --debug in config.ru sends output to syslog so either look in /var/log/messages (or similar) or specify a log destination filename like: ARGV << "--logdest" << "/var/log/puppet/puppet-master.log" - Keith On 23 Jul 2013 09:15, "Christian Flamm" wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently tryin

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: 3.2.2 on CentOS 6.3, and "Did not receive certificate"

When having problems like this it is often a good idea to shut down the Apache web server and run: # puppet master --debug from a console instead. If that works then your Puppet setup is okay and you should look at your web server and passenger config. - Keith On 18 Jul 2013 20:21, "Forrie"

Re: [Puppet Users] Calling a custom class module via a manifest - puppet 0.24.8

Perhaps try removing the final trailing comma after enable => "false". Some Puppet versions have a problem with this. - Keith On 24 Jun 2013 01:11, "Manoj Bhola" wrote: > Hi, > > I hope someone can help. > > I have created a custom class module which updates a configuration file. > > When I us

Re: [Puppet Users] PuppetLabs Module Toolkit

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_publishing.html Is there a toolkit generally used to develop/manage puppet modules? I've been playing with the modules on puppetlabs and have a question about the packaging used. It appears many of the developers are using some tools / toolk

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Validation failed: Host already has a report for time and kind

This could be an issue with time on the host being inconsistent. Is it configured to use NTP to sync against a time server? - Keith On 11 Jun 2013 05:06, "Luke Vidler" wrote: > Me Three, same versions and errors - Did you guys work out how to fix it > yet? > > On Thursday, December 1, 2011 7:5

Re: [Puppet Users] Share Hiera configuration between 2 nodes?

/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/**ip6tables_version.rb >> Info: Caching catalog for node1 >> Info: Applying configuration version '1370444163' >> Notice: The value is: webserver >> Notice: /Stage[main]//Node[node1]/**Notify[The value is: >> webserver]/message: defi

Re: [Puppet Users] Share Hiera configuration between 2 nodes?

You could set a custom "role" fact on node1 and node2 with the value "webserver" and then use the "role" fact in your Hiera hierarchy. For example using facter.d on on node1 and node2: # cd /etc/facter/facts.d # echo 'role: webserver' >> custom_facts.yaml # facter -p role role => webserver and o

Re: [Puppet Users] Very slow puppet agent runs on empty/noop manifests (v3.2.1)

Are you running into the Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname) issue pointed out by Wil Cooley a few days ago? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-dev/z09Nkk18tRE If so there is potential /etc/h

Re: [Puppet Users] Rhel based distro and multiple package version installed

Two options come to mind: 1) Install the JDK and Tomcat products from tarball into separate directories for each version which is what I do with erwbgy/sunjdk and erwbgy/tomcat 2) Create custom packages for ea

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet in an appliance model?

With PuppetDB >1.1 it is now possible to use exported resources when running puppet apply [1], though of course this still means having a central PuppetDB. This is not relevant for a single machine setup though, as you say. - Keith [1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/1.3/connect_puppet_appl

Re: [Puppet Users] Manual run with specific class

a onetime Puppet run. Details above might be slightly off as I am not in from of a computer but you get the idea. - Keith On 16 May 2013 23:40, "Nev" wrote: > thanks, but no: > > # puppet apply --execute 'include manual' > Error: Could not find class manual

Re: [Puppet Users] Manual run with specific class

Perhaps try: # puppet apply --execute 'include manual' - Keith On 16 May 2013 21:40, "Nev" wrote: > I need to be able to run a certain class ONLY when it is called > manually from the client. > > I created a class named "manual" and can run it from the client like > this: > > puppet agent --

Re: [Puppet Users] Odd Issue with Ensure Latest

pet apply --verbose --execute 'package > {yum-plugin-versionlock: ensure => latest}' > info: Applying configuration version '1368718137' > notice: Finished catalog run in 3.42 seconds > > > On Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:12:33 AM UTC-4, Keith Burdis wrote: >

Re: [Puppet Users] vim-puppet syntax highlight

Perhaps try: $ echo 'syntax on' >> ~/.vimrc - Keith On 16 May 2013 15:27, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install vim-puppet for syntax highlight of puppet manifest > file. I first installed vim-puppet and then vim. Then I ran > "vim-addon-manager -w install puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Odd Issue with Ensure Latest

This is often an issue with the underlying yum command being executed. Try running: # puppet apply --verbose --debug --execute 'package {yum-plugin-versionlock: ensure => latest}' to see what is happening. On my host this shows that '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install yum-plugin-versionlock' is

Re: [Puppet Users] checking puppet run status of node A during puppet run of node B

I don't believe there is any existing Puppet functionality that does this though the Capabilities armature discusses a potential future solution. You might find dalen/puppetdbquery

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Design pattern for exported resources from EC2 autoscaled instances

You should be able to cluster Tomcat without using multicast by having a static members list with TCP pings to check the cluster nodes. You could of course use exported resources to create the static members list. Not sure about Glassfish but I'd expect it to be possible to do something similar as

Re: [Puppet Users] Udefined method `get_uptime` for Facter::Util::Uptime:Module

Is the time set correctly on these hosts? If not then I'd suggest synchronising them with an NTP time server like those at pool.NTP.org. - Keith On 22 Apr 2013 17:54, "Przemek" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rookie puppet user and I trying to establish simple Server-Client > connection on configuration:

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.1, Hiera and a class parameter called "service"

Perhaps try using the str2bool function from puppetlabs-stdlib [1]. - Keith [1] https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib On 17 Apr 2013 18:09, "Matthias Saou" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to clean up some manifests by moving class parameters which > I change globally to Hiera lookups. >

Re: [Puppet Users] facter doesn't load from /ect/facter/facts.d

>From that page: "External facts are only available in Facter 1.7 and later." I expect you need to either upgrade or install the stdlib module. - Keith On 13 Apr 2013 15:18, "Larry Fast" wrote: > I'm trying to load custom facts via /etc/facter/facts.d/* according to > instructions on > http:

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 3.x, rubygem pkg can't be found on a RHEL 6.4

Try running: # yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms - Keith On 10 April 2013 10:04, Yusup Ashrap wrote: > I have having the same problem with install puppet on redhat 6.2. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet User

Re: [Puppet Users] Encrypt Passwords in Manifests

If you use hiera try Craig Dunn's hiera-gpg . - Keith On 3 April 2013 14:18, jim wrote: > Hello all > > I mainly use Puppet for managing windows hosts, and what to know they best > way to either encrypt password

Re: [Puppet Users] ssh_authorized_key errors in RHEL6

The permissions of /tmp should be 1777 so that all users can create files but the sticky bit is set. Setting the sticky bit ensures that files and directories under /tmp can only be renamed or deleted by the user that owns them. - Keith On 3 April 2013 00:41, Kubes wrote: > Thanks Josh > >

Re: [Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

: > On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > > Today I started using Jordan Sissel's fpm [1] to build multiple rpms for > each tomcat instance with a different prefix - something like: > > > This seems like a good opportunity to use CATALINA_BASE for multiple >

Re: [Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

I have been using the file, exec approach for my modules but transferring big zip or tar files is a pain because they take up space, as you say, and sometimes the transfer times out when the files are really big. Today I started using Jordan Sissel's fpm [1] to build multiple rpms for each tomcat

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet 3 hiera configs hiding somewhere

On 28 Mar 2013 01:22, "Philip Brown" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nick Fagerlund > wrote: ... > to keith's suggestion, of > > >Also you can use the hiera command-line utility [1] to test - for example: > > > > # hiera --debug philcheck::value > > That doesnt quite work as-is, eh?

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet 3 hiera configs hiding somewhere

Yes, perhaps try: # chown -R puppet:puppet /etc/puppet /var/lib/puppet - Keith On 28 Mar 2013 05:27, "Nick Fagerlund" wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:22:05 PM UTC-7, Philip Brown wrote: >> >> >> nope, nothing. >> I tried your suggestion of explicitly setting it. >> It gets ignor

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 3.x, rubygem pkg can't be found on a RHEL 6.4

You need to enable the optional repository. On 27 Mar 2013 21:38, "T.J. Yang" wrote: > Hi, > I followed puppetlab procedure to install open source version of puppet > agent 3.x. > It works for CentOS 6.4 but not RHEL 6.4, anyone has pointer where I > missed ? > > [root@mon04 ~]# yum install puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet 3 hiera configs hiding somewhere

Perhaps try: # ln -sf /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml /etc/hiera.yaml Also you can use the hiera command-line utility [1] to test - for example: # hiera --debug philcheck::value - Keith [1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/command_line.html On 27 March 2013 18:29, Philip Brown wrote: > We'

Re: [Puppet Users] Can't convert Puppet::Util::Log into Integer

The agent only writes logs under /var/log/puppet if you run it as a service - for example using: $ service puppet once (Note that due to buffering it may take a few seconds for entries to appear in puppet.log.) There are a number of existing issues that could be related to your problem (#17297

Re: [Puppet Users] err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Error 403 on SERVER: Forbidden request:

r as per the PE 2.7 quickstart guide. Is there > a way to let puppetlabs know that there is a problem during the evaluation > period? > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > >> Puppet runs fine on RHEL 6.2. It looks like your auth.conf is missing >> some

Re: [Puppet Users] err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Error 403 on SERVER: Forbidden request:

there > a way to let puppetlabs know that there is a problem during the evaluation > period? > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > >> Puppet runs fine on RHEL 6.2. It looks like your auth.conf is missing >> some entries. Do you perhaps have an

Re: [Puppet Users] err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Error 403 on SERVER: Forbidden request:

Puppet runs fine on RHEL 6.2. It looks like your auth.conf is missing some entries. Do you perhaps have an auth.conf.rpmnew you need to move into place? - Keith Hi All, I am trying to follow the documentation at this link: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/latest/quick_start.html When I get to th

Re: [Puppet Users] What's your hiera tree look like?

Hi Andy, When trying to implement something like Craig Dunn's roles and profiles pattern with hiera I ended up with: :hierarchy: - %{hostname} - roles/%{role} - profiles/%{software1} - profiles/%{software2} - profiles/%{software3} - profiles/%{software4} - profiles/%{software5} -

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: syntax problems trying to use Keith Burdis's erwbgy/system module without Hiera

On 22 March 2013 18:46, John Smith wrote: > > > On Friday, March 22, 2013 8:54:50 AM UTC-7, Keith Burdis wrote: >> >> Good news. I'd encourage people to file bug or feature requests on >> GitHub if they run into problems or have ideas for improvements. Tutoria

Re: [Puppet Users] disable puppet hostname resolution in standalone

Try adding an entry for your hostname in /etc/hosts - for example: 127.0.0.1 server1 - Keith On 22 Mar 2013 08:38, "bibop554" wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using puppet 2.6.2-5 in debian 6.0.3. > > I would like to execute puppet in standalone, with "puppet apply", but > puppet does not start

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: syntax problems trying to use Keith Burdis's erwbgy/system module without Hiera

Good news. I'd encourage people to file bug or feature requests on GitHub if they run into problems or have ideas for improvements. Tutorial documentation is coming Real Soon Now (TM) :-) - Keith On 22 March 2013 15:46, John Smith wrote: > thank you very much!!! > working much better now :

Re: [Puppet Users] exec resource not refreshed when subscribed resource changes

The subscribe isn't needed if notify is used which is in point 1. There are multiple ways to solve the problem - I prefer pushing these events using notify rather than pulling via subscribe :-) On 21 March 2013 10:37, Felix Frank wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/14/2013 09:25 AM, Keit

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.1.1 failing to generate Private Key Certificate: Permission denied - /etc/puppet/ssl/ca/ca_key.pem

The Puppet master runs as the puppet user so try: # chown -R puppet:puppet /etc/puppet - Keith On 13 March 2013 19:42, Mike Canty wrote: > Successfully installed Puppet 3.1.1 under Centos 6. When trying to start > puppet as the root user, puppet generates the following message: > > "Coul

Re: [Puppet Users] Can't get past Permission denied error

The master runs as the puppet user not root so try: # chown -R puppet:puppet /etc/puppet - Keith On 14 Mar 2013 15:09, "Mike Canty" wrote: > I am running Centos 6 and was able to install Puppet 3.1.1. However, when > trying to run puppet, as root, for the first time, I get the following >

Re: [Puppet Users] Host name lookup failure

The Puppet agent tries to connect to the master using the hostname 'puppet' by default so one solution may be to add an /etc/hosts entry for 'puppet' with the correct IP for your Puppet master: * # echo “ puppet” >> /etc/hosts* * * For example:* * # echo "10.0.67.1 puppet" >> /etc/hosts If you

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Help me wrap my head around Yaml/Hiera with erwbgy/system

The great thing about Puppet is that it gives you lots of different ways to manage your host data. Personally I am a big fan of hiera and its YAML backend because it is simple for non-Puppet users to understand and allows them to manage the config without having to write or modify Puppet manifests

Re: [Puppet Users] Help me wrap my head around Yaml/Hiera with erwbgy/system

Hi Byron, Some suggestions: 1) Hiera comes with a handy command-line tool to query your config so try using that first. What does running: # hiera -h system::augeas return? If it returns the ntp hash then your hiera config is good. 2) If not, are /etc/hiera.yaml and /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml

Re: [Puppet Users] exec resource not refreshed when subscribed resource changes

Perhaps try: 1) Adding a notify => Exec['unpack_archive'] to the file resource. 2) Adding refreshonly => true to the exec. 3) Remove the creates and subscribe from the exec. That way the exec will only be called when the file changes. - Keith On 14 Mar 2013 07:56, wrote: > Hello, > > I've c

Re: [Puppet Users] dependency problem when apply class

There is no user type declared in the users class. Perhaps move the user type call out of the adm_user define. On 9 Mar 2013 17:57, "mike" wrote: > Hi guys, > I need help with the class, i have created my class (users) but when i > apply from agent apers the next error: > > [] >

Re: [Puppet Users] Boolean in hiera... problems again

I am running 3.1.0 and hiera booleans appear to be working fine. - Keith On 6 March 2013 09:15, Richard Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:29:29PM +1000, Peter Brown wrote: > > Getting booleans from hiera to puppet is not currently not functioning > like > > you would expect. > > Ther

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: I moved my modules and manifest directory in puppet master.

What section of /etc/puppet/puppet.conf is your moduledir etc set in? This should be in [main] or [master] - see the 'Config Blocks' section in the docs. Alternatively perhaps the master has not actually been restarted somehow and is still using the old config. - Keith On 4 Mar 2013 21:54, "JGo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: I moved my modules and manifest directory in puppet master.

Ok so Puppet is reading /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. The timestamp on this file shows is hasn't been changed for a few days though. Is the output of: # puppet agent --configprint moduledir # puppet agent --configprint manifestdir on the master what you expect? Perhaps you have a permissions / owner

Re: [Puppet Users] I moved my modules and manifest directory in puppet master.

Perhaps Puppet is not using the puppet.conf file you think it is. Try running: # puppet agent --configprint confdir - Keith On 4 Mar 2013 20:49, "JGonza1" wrote: > I also made the changes below in the puppet.conf file to tell puppet where > to look for the the modules and manifests. I then r

Re: [Puppet Users] how to implement cascading defaults based on puppet classes

Have you looked at using hiera [1] for your configuration? It is very good for cascading defaults with more specific config at the top of the hierarchy and the least specific at the bottom. It is part of Puppet 3 and an add on for 2.7. - Keith [1] http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/05/hiera_

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: RFC: Default File Permissions

Since it would apply to more than just permissions perhaps 'source_attributes' would be better? - Keith On 9 Feb 2013 01:21, "Jakov Sosic" wrote: > On 02/08/2013 06:46 PM, Josh Cooper wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:22 AM, jcbollinger >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday,

Re: [Puppet Users] Is it possible to enable SSL tracing on the master and agent?

If you are running the master under mod_passenger then you can set 'LogLevel debug'. On 3 February 2013 04:29, Schofield wrote: > I would like to see the SSL handshake between the master and agent. How > do I enable this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: mcollective puppetd plugin does not work

I can't check at the moment but shouldn't that be 'mco puppet runonce fqdn= puppet.example.net' ? - Keith On 1 February 2013 11:23, wrote: > Hey i have installed mcollective server cleint and puppet master, agent > successfully. I have also installed puppet agent plugin. But when i run > mco

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

I certainly found it so :-) On 31 Jan 2013 17:09, "Kodiak Firesmith" wrote: > Thanks very much Keith; if it's nearly as thorough as rpmlint I've no > doubt it will be illustrative and saddening to run my humble modules > through. :) > > On Thursday, Januar

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Calling a "subclass" correctly in a node def?

If you like the style guide the you'll like puppet-lint - https://github.com/rodjek/puppet-lint - Keith On 31 January 2013 16:15, Kodiak Firesmith wrote: > I figured this out via taking another look at the style guide. This is > resolved. > > Changed this to this: > > class mysql-server inh

Re: [SUSPECTED SPOOFING] [Puppet Users] how to get report or last_run_report

Perhaps 'puppet node' is what you're looking for? $ sudo puppet node status $(facter fqdn) [sudo] password for kburdis: lnxmgt-01.domain Currently active Last catalog: 2013-01-31T14:57:22.518Z Last facts: 2013-01-31T14:57:14.732Z To get more info you'll can install PuppetDB and that's as simple a

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

d ,getting as in screeshot but All nodes are still showing >> unresponsive. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: >> >>> Run it where you were getting the error you posted. >>> >>> - Keith >>> On 31 Jan 2013 09

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Run it where you were getting the error you posted. - Keith On 31 Jan 2013 09:59, "Mamta Garg" wrote: > So this command i should run it on master machine? > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Keith Burdis wrote: > >> Try running the Puppet agent manual

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet service

Try running the Puppet agent manually with 'puppet agent --test --verbose'. The output should indicate what is preventing it from starting. - Keith On 31 Jan 2013 09:44, "Mamta Garg" wrote: > Please find now. > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Nikola Petrov wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.02 issue

masterhttpd. > **log > > When I do a service puppetmaster status > it states puppet dead but pid file exists. I manually delete the pid file > and it does the same thing > > > On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:00:27 PM UTC-5, Keith Burdis wrote: >> >> Try 'service

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.02 issue

; wrote: > Tried that.. so now its owned by puppet:puppet -rw-rw however it still > gives me the same errror > > > On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:49:36 PM UTC-5, Keith Burdis wrote: >> >> The puppet master runs as the puppet user so try 'chown -R puppet:puppet &

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.02 issue

The puppet master runs as the puppet user so try 'chown -R puppet:puppet /etc/puppet /var/log/puppet /var/lib/puppet'. - Keith On 30 Jan 2013 18:39, "Raymond Regnier" wrote: > Hey all, this is my first post. I did try and search the group first > before posting :) > > I've been using puppet f

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Reusable Puppet config for Vagrant

Thank you both for sharing details of your Vagrant setups. This will certainly save me some time. - Keith On 30 Jan 2013 07:01, "Felipe Salum" wrote: > I have done something similar, installing puppet master, puppetdb and a > few nodes for testing, everything via vagrant. > > https://github.co

Re: [Puppet Users] Cron job based on gateway

Here's one way: 1) Install the erwbgy/system module: # puppet module install erwbgy/system 2) Configure a custom fact using facter_dot_d for the default gateway: include system::schedules $config = { 'default_route' => { 'type' => 'script', 'value' => "#!/bin/bash\nprintf default_rou

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet issues

When you specify "include sysctl" then Puppet includes the sysctl class and this class only ensures that the /etc/sysctl.conf file exists: class sysctl { file { "/etc/sysctl.conf": ensure => "present", owner => "root", group => "root", mode => 0644, }

Re: [Puppet Users] Extending a standard type

You can set the default values to undef and then the standard user type will use its defaults (if any). It usually makes sense to default the ensure parameter to 'present' though because if it is undef then nothing will happen: define site::user ( $ensure = 'present', $comment