Re: [Puppet Users] troubles with require parametre

Hello, This case interests me :) On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > It looks to me like you don't have a User 'bind' on the target system, > and you haven't defined one in the above manifest. > > Does the bind package create a bind user for you? This looks like a bug. The

Re: [Puppet Users] Monitor puppet runs on clients with nagios

Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 06:09 -0800, Tim a écrit : > Hi, Hello, > Anyway what other approaches are there? I'd like to simply see 2 > things: > 1) If there were any failures during the puppet run on the client > 2) When the last puppet run on each client was (ie. if it was more > than 50 mins

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Automating infrastructure tests on Puppet nodes after a puppetrun

Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 23:49 -0700, Al @ Lab42 a écrit : > Generally yes. IMHO, monitoring needs a "refresh" to cope with the "new way" servers are operated & built. This is a larger topic that this single thread :) > > So assuming you have monitoring for all of this, is the problem that you

Re: [Puppet Users] Automating infrastructure tests on Puppet nodes after a puppetrun

- "Al @ Lab42" a écrit : | Hi List, Hi, | I would like to discuss with whoever is interested one topic that I | suppose has general interest. | | I want to implement some kind of automatic testing on the status of a | node after a Puppet Run. | These tests involve trivial and less trivial

Re: [Puppet Users] Nginx/Mongrel Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 403 on SERVER

- "Dan Carley" a écrit : | On 8 June 2010 10:06, Jomo < zhan...@gmail.com > wrote: | | | It works well when I use webrick. The config of nginx is from puppet | wiki, some logs is below, what's wrong? | | | | I suspect that it relates to the use of HTTP headers and Puppet not | knowing wh

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: using puppetforge modules

- "Al @ Lab42" a écrit : | > I think the modules should be written so that they assume they are | > named after what they are in forge. | | I don't think this is a good idea, if I've understood it fully. | | IHMO, modules in the forge should be, in the long term, interoperable | and possibl

Re: [Puppet Users] using puppetforge modules

Le lundi 07 juin 2010 à 09:18 +0200, Marc Fournier a écrit : > Hello, > > > My question is this. Are the modules intended to be used with the > > author-modulename naming convention? If so, did I do something wrong > > or is there something wrong with the camptocamp-apt module that is not > > allo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: FYI: Mac Configuration Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory white paper

Hello, - "Patrick" a écrit : | On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Chuck wrote: | | > I am currently worried about scalability as the number of modules | and | > clients on my puppet server increases. I am planning on locating | at | > least one puppet server in each of the 4 data centers. | | I'v

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: External Nodes Examples

Hello, - "Douglas Garstang" a écrit : | I was just doing a little research on the best way to switch over to | external nodes. It seems like you can't use a combination of the two | systems. Apparently if the external node tool can't find an external | node (because it hasn't been cut over ye

Re: [Puppet Users] FYI: Mac Configuration Management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory white paper

- "Allan B Marcus" a écrit : | Here's a white paper you may be interested in. | | The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) had a need for central | configuration management of non-Windows computers. LANL has three to | five thousand Macs and an equal number of Linux based systems. The | pri

Re: [Puppet Users] Build nginx conf dynamically (depending on the upstream machines)

Le mercredi 26 mai 2010 à 05:03 -0700, Gonçalo a écrit : Hello Gonçalo > Hi there, im trying to set up puppet to manage a nginx server with > load balancing. To achieve this i need to add every machine ip to the > "upstream" conf of nginx. Doing this manually is easy, and all works > fine, the p

Re: [Puppet Users] Best practices for puppet-proxys

Le jeudi 06 mai 2010 à 13:49 -0700, Thomas von Steiger a écrit : > Hi, > > I think about whats the best solution to have puppet-proxys for > systems without direct connection to the puppetmaster. > > - Route all the trafic with iptable forwarding to one puppetmaster. > - Build puppetmaster-proxy

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet for switches

- "Geoff Crompton" a écrit : | This might be a crazy idea, but it just popped into my head, and I | wanted to know if it's possible. Perhaps not possible right now, but | possible in a theoretical sense. | | Is it possible that puppet could be modified to be used to manage | switches that ha

Re: [Puppet Users] Is this an intermediate / advanced puppet users list??

Le lundi 26 avril 2010 à 15:13 +0100, Gabriel - IP Guys a écrit : > Dear Guys (and girls and autobots), Hello, > I look at the issues that some people have on this list, and I am > genuinely embarrassed to post my issues! I’m only trying to write some > simple recipies, that do things like instal

Re: [Puppet Users] scaling up puppetmasterd by cloning puppetmasterd

- "Brian Lam" a écrit : | I apologized ahead of time if this post shouldn't go here but I | having | been knocking my heading for the last two days trying to get over the | following error while trying to "clone" my primary puppetmasterd | because we have outgrown one puppetmasterd setup. |

Re: [Puppet Users] Apt Module

Le lundi 12 avril 2010 à 11:07 -0700, Paul Lathrop a écrit : > For you debian users out there: > > Digg has allowed me to release our apt module as open-source. It's > simple, but we find it useful. Contributions and criticisms welcome: > > http://github.com/plathrop/libpuppet-apt Thanks for sha

Re: [Puppet Users] Why we wont use zpool ever again

- "Peter Meier" a écrit : | | as far as I understood was that the zpool information was lost, hence | puppet thought that there was no zpool anymore. I assume that this | means | that zpool-tools didn't know about that anymore either, but it might | have been recoverable with manual interacti

Re: [Puppet Users] Replacing a puppet server

Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 16:22 +0530, LOhit a écrit : > Hi, Hi, > Since puppet doesn't have HA/fail over capabilities as of now. How > does one mitigate a puppet master failure( Ex. Hardware). When you > replace the server and configure the Puppet masterd, the clients may > no longer be able to

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages "the batch mode"

Le mardi 30 mars 2010 à 09:12 -0300, Darvin Denmian a écrit : > Hello, > > currently I'm using the following lines to install a lot of packges > using Puppet: > >package {"screen": ensure => present } >package {"sysstat": ensure => present } >package {"rkhunter": ensure => present } >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: RFC: A generic Monitor module

Le mardi 09 mars 2010 à 10:26 -0800, Al @ Lab42 a écrit : > In any case, generally speaking I'd prefer to keep the monitor define > as much independent as possible and abstract from the actual > monitoring tool, so in this case I'd prefer the first solution, I do agree this point. I'm not a puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

Le vendredi 05 février 2010 à 23:10 +1100, James Turnbull a écrit : > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions > > See the Troubleshooting and areas below. Please feel free to add to > this! I did not remember this one :) I added a few lines :) Nico. signature.asc De

Re: [Puppet Users] Making the new users experience easier

Le mardi 02 février 2010 à 12:08 -0500, Michael DeHaan a écrit : > Just one more email and I'll let you go for a few hours :) Hello puppeters > One of the things I like to see in apps is that they are immediately > intuitive and easy to use for new users. I think Puppet is really good > here,

Re: [Puppet Users] manitest - a simple tool to help your puppet development and testing

Tried it out and did a bunch of debugging with ohad. Works really fine, I planned to check all manifests but I still not decided how to do it on a continous basis. I have to take a look at hudson. Nicolas. - Mail Original - De: "Nigel Kersten" À: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Envoyé: M

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet client error

Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 13:07 -0500, Cory mckee a écrit : > I was wondering if I could get help. > > on client > > > [r...@linux ~]# puppetd --test --verbose > info: Caching catalog at /var/lib/puppet/localconfig.yaml > notice: Starting catalog run > err: //Node[basenode]/motd/Package[motd]/

[Puppet Users] Re: How to share my Puppet modules?

Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 07:51 -0800, Edwin Shao a écrit : > Hello, > > I'd like to give back to the community by sharing my Puppet modules. > They are FreeBSD but I am helping I just finished putting all of them > up at Github , and would like some > advice.

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet failover

Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 08:07 -0700, Rene a écrit : > Hi, thanks for the quick answers. > > Did you create a link /var/lib/puppet that points to the nas share? It's a NFS share, so it is mounted in this dir : [phosphore:~] mount [snip] smaug:/data/zone3/puppet on /var/lib/puppet type nfs .

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet failover

This will definitely work, I have this setup : two puppetmasters, sharing a vip with heartbeat, both running nginx + mongrel. /etc/puppet is populated through subversion (automatic checkout). /var/lib/puppet is NFS mounted (SPOF, could be an iSCSI disk with ocfs2 filesystem). This works perfectly

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet 0.25.1 debs done... but availability delayed.

Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 07:47 -0700, Nigel Kersten a écrit : > We've uploaded the 0.25.1 debs, but due to this work, it might take a > little while before they appear. > http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/10/27/debian-ftpmaster-meeting.html > > It will appear here when done. > http://packages.

[Puppet Users] Re: node manifest best practices

Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 15:32 +1100, Matt Delves a écrit : > Greetings, > As the number of servers I am using puppet on is increasing, I'm wondering > what the best practices is for the nodes. Currently they all sit in the one > file /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp. > > What I'm wondering i

[Puppet Users] Re: Best Practices Rewrite - First Draft

Le dimanche 11 octobre 2009 à 12:58 -0700, Paul Lathrop a écrit : > Hey everyone, > > Well, I really was meaning to get this cleaned up and put on the wiki, > but the world seems to conspire against it. First couple of times I > sat down to do it, I got Nagios pages. The last time was the real > w

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet way to manage a central file?

Le vendredi 02 octobre 2009 à 12:06 +0200, Aurelien Degremont a écrit : > Thomas Bellman a écrit : > > Aurelien Degremont wrote: > > > >> How do you deal with a file, like /etc/sysconfig/network which have > >> content composed from different aspects (could be network, nfs, nis, > >> ...). So mana

[Puppet Users] Re: external nodes issue

Le lundi 28 septembre 2009 à 10:52 +0100, Matt a écrit : > Update:- > > I added a default node to a manifest file, just - > > node default { > include env > } > > This appears to have made the puppetmasterd kick in to action and > compile the catalog from the foreman for that node. i.e. I se

[Puppet Users] Re: How to add header to all files/templates?

Le mercredi 05 août 2009 à 22:53 -0700, robbyt a écrit : > Hello All! > > I would like to automatically add a header to all files/templates that > puppet manages on my servers. Something like "#if you break, my puppet > will fix it!!" > > Is this possible? Probably by creating a custom type that

[Puppet Users] Re: Purging non-LDAP users, but ignore the LDAP users?

Le mercredi 05 août 2009 à 04:01 -0700, Ben Lavender a écrit : > For the reasons you just explained, this won't do. Users like daemon, > cron, and various system accounts are all still around and need to > be. I'm also not sure what pam would do with itself without passwd, > to be honest, and wou

[Puppet Users] puppet & munin : little things added

Hi list, On the advice of DavidS I send mail to the list to advertise about some modifications/enhancements I've made to his munin classes. The stuff is here : http://www.rottenbytes.info/?p=200 It is also available through planetpuppet.org, but everyone already reads it right ? ;) Regards, N

[Puppet Users] Re: pluginsync syncing all custom facts in every module

Le lundi 06 juillet 2009 à 16:28 -0700, daniel g a écrit : > It appears that pluginsync is syncing every custom fact in all modules > in our puppetmasterd's modulepath, regardless of whether or not the > modules are included for the node in the node list. > > > > Is there any way to ensure that

[Puppet Users] Re: are variables defined?

Le jeudi 02 juillet 2009 à 13:35 +0200, Dan Bode a écrit : > Is there a way to see if variables are defined? I use this syntax : if $var { # blah } else { # bluh } requires a not-too-old puppet Nico. signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signé

[Puppet Users] Re: Debugging external node scripts

Le lundi 29 juin 2009 à 01:09 -0700, Curt Micol a écrit : > When I run the script directly: > [r...@vpsadmins ~]# python /etc/puppet/tools/external_nodes.py dc2- > vps1-400b.example.com > --- > classes: > - custom > - monitoring::base > - ntpd > - puppetd > - rpms > - sshd > - yum > - crontab > -

[Puppet Users] Re: debugging external node scripts

Le mercredi 24 juin 2009 à 10:28 +0200, Dan Bode a écrit : > # /etc/puppet/conf/node_classifier HOST.com > /etc/puppet/conf/node_classifier:26:in `initialize': No such file or > directory - /etc/puppet/conf/inventory.csv (Errno::ENOENT) > from /etc/puppet/conf/node_classifier:26:in `new' >

[Puppet Users] Re: debugging external node scripts

Le mercredi 24 juin 2009 à 10:02 +0200, Dan Bode a écrit : > Hi all, > > How can I debug external node script errors? I cant seem to figure out > what is wrong with my script. It appears to work from the command > line, but not from puppet. Run your master with --debug --trace --~--~-

[Puppet Users] Running multiple puppet masters behind nginx

Hi puppet list, I'm currently modifying my puppet setup to get it redundant. I actually have a puppet master, running mongrel behind nginx. It's on a single machine, with no backup (backup for the service, not the files). The machine is called puppet.mydomain.com I want to move it to 2 machines

[Puppet Users] Re: keeping some code out of the repo

Le mardi 16 juin 2009 à 11:07 +0200, Dan Bode a écrit : > thanks David, > > setting custom values in the database and retrieving them seems like a > resonable solution for managing values outside of the code repo. I > still need to read more about this. > > Ok, it took me a second to understand

[Puppet Users] Re: custom facts not working

l\") do\n confi"..., 4096) = 1435 > > so I can tell that facter is reading this new fact file. > > But when, from the commandline, I run "facter" or "facter virtual" I don't > get the expected output. I've ran int

[Puppet Users] Re: auto deploy vm....

- Mail Original - > De: "James Turnbull" > À: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > Envoyé: Dimanche 8 Mars 2009 11:07:01 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / > Rome / Stockholm / Vienne > Objet: [Puppet Users] Re: auto deploy vm > > Some people use a combination of Cobbler and Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: using portsnap

ightly large number of machine I recommend to set up a local mirror in order to speed up the process & reduce the load for the project servers. Bye, -- Nicolas Szalay Administrateur systèmes & réseaux -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X

[Puppet Users] Re: apt-get update - exit status 100

any details of > what it actually means. > > Has anyone else experienced this? does your /etc/apt/preferencs has some incorrect/no more up-to-date things inside ? -- Nicolas Szalay Administrateur systèmes & réseaux -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - agains

[Puppet Users] Re: Overriding files specified in modules

> > > this seems to be your solution. > > cheets pete > > ps: I couldn't live without that nice feature! YEAH ! This is the post of the week ! I was turning my head up & down to find a way to put user & host specific authorized keys. -- Nicolas Szalay Adm

[Puppet Users] Re: host group

Mike Renfro wrote: > On 1/22/2009 10:42 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > >> Then adding a noe is just adding a new line to a file... >> I'll manage about 100-120 hosts...1 > > I manage about 90 with the 'node "node1", "node2", "node3" {}' method, > but my groupings are pretty static. Entered them once,

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet playing badly with Debian etch rubygems

:) Packages created are using the debian naming conventions, so it should not harm. But I'd like to see a free competitor for this system, because to me the idea is nice. -- Nicolas Szalay Administrateur systèmes & réseaux -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) -

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet playing badly with Debian etch rubygems

Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 15:33 -0800, Robin Lee Powell a écrit : > OK, so how do I fix it? I think that debgem will be helpfull in a near future : http://debgem.phusion.nl/ -- Nicolas Szalay Administrateur systèmes & réseaux -- _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - again