[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Dashboard 1.2.0 is available now

2011-08-30 Thread David Thompson
> basically anyone attempting to do anything reasonable with ruby on RHEL 5.x > (or any of the free repackaged distributions of RHEL 5.x) knows that 1.8.5 > version is just short of useless and has implemented other fixes. Some comments on this thread, and current software development trends in

[Puppet Users] OS X Lion group membership not updated

2011-09-06 Thread David Thompson
Switching to puppet (2.7.3) for managing my OS X Lion systems, I'm finding group membership not being updated. Starting out, user dt is not a member of group dt-grp: # dscl . read /groups/dt-grp | grep GroupMembership GroupMembership: ...Run puppet, says it adds to the group: # puppet agent --t

[Puppet Users] Custom Fact undefined in manifests

2013-09-10 Thread David Thompson
I'm working with custom facts with facter 1.7.2. I've created a fact file with an ntp configuration fact in it: # grep ntp_conf /etc/facter/facts.d/myfacts.txt v_ntp__ntp_conf=puppet:///modules/ntp/DEFAULT/ntp_conf facter knows the fact is there: # facter -p v_ntp__ntp_conf puppet:///modules/

Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Fact undefined in manifests

2013-09-11 Thread David Thompson
On 9/10/13 5:49 PM, Denmat wrote: On 11/09/2013, at 1:38, David Thompson mailto:dthomp...@waisman.wisc.edu>> wrote: I'm working with custom facts with facter 1.7.2. I've created a fact file with an ntp configuration fact in it: # grep ntp_conf /etc/facter/facts.d/my

Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Fact undefined in manifests

2013-09-11 Thread David Thompson
vial line ("somefact=somevalue"), the custom fact shows up in facter but not in puppet. I also get the same result when I pass the fact as yaml. I tried json, but got an error about missing the json gem, even though I have the puppetlabsdep rubygem-json RPM installed. -- David Thompso

Re: [Puppet Users] Custom Fact undefined in manifests

2013-09-12 Thread David Thompson
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html Is there a reason you think stdlib will fix this? David On 12/09/2013, at 1:12, David Thompson mailto:dthomp...@waisman.wisc.edu>> wrote: On 9/11/13 8:54 AM, jcbollinger wrote: Lack of response? This is a volunteer community forum, not a pai

[Puppet Users] nagios collector only finding some resources

2013-09-20 Thread David Thompson
e to be collected. What I do know from querying the database is that all the exported resources are present in the puppetdb database (in catalog_resources). Has anyone else run into this, or any hints how to proceed? Thanks much! -- David Thompson Waisman Center Brain Imaging and Behavior Lab 1500 Highl

Re: [Puppet Users] nagios collector only finding some resources

2013-09-20 Thread David Thompson
ource to see if it occurs as well? Perhaps working around the edges of the problem might prove what it is _not_ which is a start. Other resources (Package, File) seem to be present for all nodes using the query@ method described in http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/1.4/api/query/tutorial.h

[Puppet Users] Still no nagios joy

2013-10-01 Thread David Thompson
the puppetdb rest API only show the Nagios_host resources generated on the nagios server itself. I'm sure this is a configuration or some other error on my part, but honestly I'm at a loss where it can be. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- David Thompson Waisman Center Brain

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Still no nagios joy

2013-10-02 Thread David Thompson
On 10/2/13 9:09 AM, jcbollinger wrote: On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:50:42 AM UTC-5, David Thompson wrote: I continue to be unable to get puppetdb to create nagios resources. Nitpick: puppetdb does not create resources of any type, in any sense. That leaves me uncertain whether you

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Still no nagios joy

2013-10-02 Thread David Thompson
On 10/2/13 9:44 AM, David Thompson wrote: Do you know whether the exported nagios_host resources in particular are ending up in the DB? Just to eliminate postgres as a possible problem source, I changed the database.ini and switched (back) to the embedded hsqldb database. Same result with

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Still no nagios joy

2013-10-03 Thread David Thompson
generally, what is the nature of the correlation (that you have recognized) between declared nagios host resources and the machines on which puppet manages those resources? Yes, sometimes I've gotten some partial Nagios_host data generated on the nagios server, but never in any discernible

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Still no nagios joy

2013-10-04 Thread David Thompson
linux-server", } } } ...then in site.pp 'include nagios_config'. Also, is there any chance of resource parameter overrides being in play? Specifically, overrides of the Nagios_hosts' 'ensure' parameters? Nope. I don't do any resource overrides in

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Still no nagios joy

2013-10-08 Thread David Thompson
our puppetdb server should dump out everything puppetdb knows about your hosts, including when they were deactivated (or null if they've not been deactivated). All the nodes show up via the URL above with null deactivation dates. -- David Thompson Waisman Center Brain Imaging and Behavior Lab 1500 Hi

[Puppet Users] Decommission puppetdb

2014-01-08 Thread David Thompson
I'm trying to decommission puppetdb, but it's being very persistent. I've removed the puppetdb-terminus rpm, and commented out the storeconfigs entries in puppet.conf, but the managed systems can't apply without puppetdb running on the server. The error messages are: Warning: Unable to fetch