Re: [Puppet Users] external node classifier with a back-end

2013-12-07 Thread Jason Antman
So you're looking to put Puppet data and "other data" for other applications in ONE database? That doesn't sound terribly safe... How is this data getting into the database? What types of functionality do you need? Just something like Dashboard with nodes and groups that can have params and classe

[Puppet Users] Re: Unpleasant puppetlabs experience

2013-12-07 Thread Fred Lifton
As a member of the Puppet Labs docs team, I would like to second what Nick said. We are a small team with a big backlog and we could not get our jobs done if it were not for the engagement and and assiduousness of our users. Thanks for your help and your patience. As we grow the team and move a

[Puppet Users] puppet apply or puppet agent -t fails on razor installation. Need help on razor too.

2013-12-07 Thread Arvind P R
My puppet master server is working fine and i now installed razor module on the same server. i downloaded the tar.gz from https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/razor and did the installation using puppet module install --ignore-dependencies. i took care of all the dependencies too. *My pu

[Puppet Users] using mco to manage puppet resources by class

2013-12-07 Thread Jay Christopherson
Has anyone successfully use the class selectors for the puppet MCollective plugin? Something like: $ mco puppet runonce --tags mysql::master >From the docs: *puppet_tags* *===* *Validates that a comma seperated list of tags are valid Puppet class names* * Author: R.I.Pienaar >* *

[Puppet Users] Provider not using command functions

2013-12-07 Thread Jeff Bachtel
The gem package provider pretty extensively reads from commands[] and does its own execute calls instead of using the command functions provided. This makes it impossible to create a child provider that points to a different gem command. Would this be considered a defect worthy of a bugrep, or is

Re: [Puppet Users] testing and exported (nagios) resources

2013-12-07 Thread Jeff Bachtel
Three thoughts. The first would be to have node definitions for monitor on both dev and test environments, doing a minimal amount of work to generate nagios host definitions in a disjoint directory that you include in your nagios config. So: /var/lib/{puppet,puppet-dev,puppet-test} /etc/{puppet,pu

[Puppet Users] The error we caught said '407 "authenticationrequired"' during module install behind proxy

2013-12-07 Thread Arvind P R
I read at a number of places that if my puppet master is behind a proxy which requires authentication puppet module command does not work despite setting the global parameters http_proxy, https_proxy on bash the command throws an error [root@centos-razor ~]# puppet module install saz/dnsmasq