Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard Questions

2011-12-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
re available in some dashboard release as of now? > Yes. The current release of Dashboard will show a noop run that has simulated the run and identified changes that would be made under the category "Pending" in the left-hand sidebar. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs --

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard Questions

2011-12-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:49 PM, hai wu wrote: > Great! Is there any API to use to retrieve these information from > dashboard database, so that we could generate a nice report via email, > with short and verbose versions for such report? > No. You'd need to put together your own report processor

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Is puppet right for us?

2011-12-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; > > automation tools myself, and settled on Puppet). Each one has their > > > strengths and weaknesses. > > > > > -- > > > Jon > > > [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQhttp:// > snowulf.com/http://www.linkedin.com/in/shakataganai< > http://tw

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Dashboard; node.rake

2011-12-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/0bl7zHa0ukgJ. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://group

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: restarting "service" when configuration changes

2011-12-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 10:16 am, Sans wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2:08 pm, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > > On Dec 14, 4:37 pm, Jo Rhett wrote: > > > > > > Try > > > > notify => Service['autofs'] > > > > > Right. As far as I know, classes do not forw

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: restarting "service" when configuration changes

2011-12-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:57 AM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 8:13 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > You can notify a class, and it forwards the signal to resources it > contains.- Hide quoted text - > > > I stand corrected. > > So, Nigel, do you have a

Re: [Puppet Users] Modules in Environments

2011-12-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
nations. Divide things up too finely, and you're weighing everyone down with too much process to get their job done. It's easy to fall into the latter trap as the person responsible for a Puppet deployment that other teams develop code for. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best practice for module params in foo::params

2011-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Walter Heck wrote: > Hmm, that's the second time in two weeks someone mentions hiera as a > solution for a problem that cannot easily be solved inside puppet, I guess > it's time to go check it out :) We're committed to Hiera, and are looking to integrate it as

[Puppet Users] Puppet Labs Newsletter coming to Puppet Users list

2011-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
est to the community, please let us know! Send submissions to us at: scott.johns...@puppetlabs.com or if Twitter is more your thing, feel free to let us know via the @puppetlabs account: https://twitter.com/puppetlabs -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this mes

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing sensitive strings with puppet

2011-12-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
unction that runs on the master to decrypt the content out of version control, but the above makes it pretty simple. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this g

Re: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
mail to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs

Re: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
our app >> and process via rpm directly. >> >> >> >> --KL >> >> >> >> *From:* puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto: >> puppet-users@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nigel Kersten >> *Sent:* Friday, December 23, 2011 2:00 PM >> *To:* p

[Puppet Users] Re: Call for talks for the Configuration Management DevRoom at fosdem 2011

2011-12-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
1LGAqSdpKFCm6k6dUvWpgoEThiIXpQCZyvPnAWu/b25u+UcUFwllE7gJb4Ydu > tGZ5N7ubP4Lp6BIj49k5efQdXF0MoEtSK0kdmQD9xcuhLV4FdrETRreYzQnW+64W > /pSssvLpj1GaVfulTiJsXWVyFiQqnewRpz7Ap/UjNKHvAJrUlXmMqNkDVpqa4gGw > gRL9EznlCBb+k39piIVjsuvhpS4mG2Cc6Vq9gGhZYDowvRMLWZ/7uZiknnUjZnDf > mHDbkMhlovPZCYlRKmZnmxu6LYqB/QIiaxH4yc1q5a

[Puppet Users] Re: Call for talks for the Configuration Management DevRoom at fosdem 2012

2011-12-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
*AHEM* I accidentally replied to the call for papers from *LAST* year. I blame the holiday season and concern over how Australia is doing in the cricket. We are running the room again, and we are looking for papers for *2012* FOSDEM. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote

Re: [Puppet Users] PE 2.0 server and regular stock puppet client

2011-12-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/dZV7EgUK2P0J. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To un

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing sensitive strings with puppet

2011-12-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
gt; nm. I figured out what I was doing wrong. What was it Ryan? Is there something we could do to improve the docs here? -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Managing sensitive strings with puppet

2011-12-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Ryan Stewart wrote: > On Dec 28, 11:33 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Ryan Stewart > wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 5:00 pm, Ryan Stewart wrote: > > > > Before jumping into hiera, I was trying to get a

Re: [Puppet Users] Infiniband and Puppet - Strange Messages

2012-01-02 Thread Nigel Kersten
ersion '1325468978' > notice: /File[/etc/yum.repos.d/x.repo]/ensure: current_value file, > should be absent (noop) . > . > > Any ideas on that ? > > Best > Erhard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [Puppet Users] compliance baseline

2012-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Pup

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
cleaner direction though. > > Another option is to use the generate() function on your master if you've already got a shell/executable script that can get the data for you. If you've got lots of these, it's probably not the best approach, but it's a lower barrier to entr

Re: [Puppet Users] Static Puppet Binary

2012-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet agent hangs after running a few hours, defunct sh process

2012-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Andreas N wrote: > Wow, it took quite a while for my post to reach this group. No idea why, > is it moderated? > > We moderate the first post from everyone to stop spam getting through. This sucks, but it sucks less than the other alternatives of moderating every

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
s not change between runs, Puppet on the client will not update the file if the contents already match your desired state. > > > On Jan 7, 10:57 am, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, windowsrefund >wrote: > > > > > > > > > O

Re: [Puppet Users] How to handle multiple modules requiring the same packages

2012-01-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
definition to a third module/class. Tell both the db and app module that they require Class['gcc']. Does that make sense? -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: undefined method `pip' for #

2012-01-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
s@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
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Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Alessandro Franceschi wrote: > > So, to reply to your question, Nigel, something like a hiera backend or a > Puppet function that does what is written before in any Puppet setup would > be what I need. > > The ideal, maybe, would be a simple function that does t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Exec depends on ressources that are several different types

2012-01-15 Thread Nigel Kersten
mit this as an addition in one > of the wiki examples on the puppet website. > > Ideally submit it as a bug against this page: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_guide.html here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet-docs/issues/new -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Alessandro Franceschi wrote: > > On Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:30:02 PM UTC+1, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> So here's the rough idea we have in place. >> > > Let me contextualize: What you suggest here is what may be in

Re: [Puppet Users] pip provider

2012-01-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
y mention of it. > > Can you do a run with --debug on and paste the relevant parts Chris? -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to pu

Re: [Puppet Users] Where to submit documentation request?

2012-01-16 Thread Nigel Kersten
legroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message be

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Dmitry V'yal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently administering a vps running a dozen of php-sites. I use > several scripts for deploying new sites, updating them, taking the > backups and so on. All the system is quite fragile and error-prone. > I'm thinking about s

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Dmitry V'yal wrote: > Bruce Richardson wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Dmitry V'yal wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm currently administering a vps running a dozen of php-sites. I use >>> several scripts for deploying new sites, updating them,

Re: [Puppet Users] File Size

2010-04-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Bellman > wrote: > > Dan Bode wrote: > > > >> I would prefer if puppet ran the sync. It would be nice to receive > puppet > >> events for any changes made via rsync (essentially reports of which > files

[Puppet Users] Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
http://b/issue?id=2583243 That bug gives the background as to *why*. So that clients don't end up all downloading every file at once as the RCS tags change, I'm proposing to go through modules in *stable* Puppet configurations and strip them out with the correct $Id$ tags module by module over th

[Puppet Users] Re: Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
brain fart! That obviously wasn't meant to be for a public list :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+u

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Request to make changes to stable Goobuntu Puppet configs

2010-04-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
RCS tags are parsed in "head", but the keyword expansion is disabled from that point onwards. I dislike having a service restart simply because a dependent config file changed RCS tag but nothing else > > Thanks, > Ohad > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Nigel Kersten

Re: [Puppet Users] How to bring about serialization in puppet ?

2010-04-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Jim Bala wrote: >> On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Mayank wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>>    I'm trying to manage some hosts using a single puppetmaster. I >>> don't know why but puppet on clients seems to be executing

Re: [Puppet Users] Logging Exec

2010-04-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > Is there a way to stop puppetd from logging the command line arguments > passed to an Exec() ? > > I need to pass sensitive options, ie passwords, on the command line, > and don't want them to appear in log files. > You know they'll still

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:30 +0200, Michael DeHaan > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was just digging through the archives and found some comments from >>> Sept 2008 about CPAN pr

Re: [Puppet Users] status of cpan provider?

2010-04-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:36:03 +0200, Nigel Kersten > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Alan McKay >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> I was just digging through the archive

Re: [Puppet Users] Watchers replaces voting...

2010-05-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:09 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all > > Thanks to Eric Davis we can now sort issues by the number of people > watching them. This should make it easier to determine who wants > what and how many people want it. > huzz

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetmaster filing up /var/log/messages

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:47 AM, JoE wrote: > Puppetmaster is filling up /var/log/messages even though logdir is set > to /var/puppet/log/ and masterlog = /var/puppet/log/puppetmaster.log. > There is however no file /var/puppet/log/puppetmaster.log > What is logdest set to? It sounds like logdes

Re: [Puppet Users] Simple issue with templates.

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace < li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > My brain is now officially dead! > > I have a series of modules that have a tree layout as documented in the > "best practice" guide. > > One of the directories I have is "templates" and i

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet URI

2010-05-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Roshan Punnoose wrote: > Oh ok, is there a doc on how to run on another webserver? (Is this the > Mongrel doc?) I simply set up ssldump to log all this. Then it doesn't matter how you're running the server, and you see all the extra header stuff puppet clients d

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] GSoC - Introducing myself

2010-05-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, William Van Hevelingen wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I'm William and I am the other Google Summer of Code 2010 student. I will be > working on a Puppet type to manage advanced provisioning and configuration > of network interfaces (initially on various Linux distrib

[Puppet Users] Puppet docs, defined types and requires.

2010-05-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
I don't know if it's just me, but I find this example horribly confusing, and I'm wondering if it's just really out of date. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_tutorial.html#definitions define svn_repo($path) { exec {"create_repo_${name}": command => "/usr/bin/svnadmin create $path/$title

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet docs, defined types and requires.

2010-05-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/05/10 1:43 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > I don't know if it's just me, but I find this example horribly > > confusing, and I'm wondering if it

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet and ubuntu 9.04

2010-05-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, hai wu wrote: > Dependency would not work, I chose to install another ubuntu 10.04 and will > try to migrate settings to the new server .. I'm surprised. We run Hardy 8.04 here and use the Debian sid packages with no problems. Which packages were you trying? You

Re: [Puppet Users] temporarily editing sudoers

2010-05-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Pieter Baele wrote: > We use a script to edit /etc/sudoers temporarily to provide sudo access to > clients for a limited time. > A cron job checks for a var and after a defined time the line is deleted. > > But this way, /etc/sudoers can't be managed by Puppet, bec

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > - "Brian Gallew" wrote: > >> in nodes and have them propagate to their children, then I submit that >> nodes are so fundamentally broken as to make node inheritance >> completely useless, in which case node inheritance should be pulled.

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Dan Bode wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: >> > >> > - "Brian Gallew" wrote: >> > >> >> in nodes and have

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

2010-05-11 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > Hey all, > > I've open-sources Digg's apache module: > http://github.com/plathrop/puppet-module-apache > > I know this isn't much more advanced than what I've seen a lot of > people using. Here's my proposition, though. Let's get all the > dis

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-12 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dan Bode wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alan Barrett wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Ohad Levy wrote: >> > > And the absolute killer: as far as I know, external node classifiers >> > > are global, not per environment. It doesn't even get to know

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Dan Bode wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dan Bode wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ala

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing Mac OS X Boxen

2010-05-13 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, p.e.r.i.o.d.i.c.i.t.y < p.e.r.i.o.d.i.c.i@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm considering switching to using puppet from radmind to manage our > Mac OS X machines, and I have a few concerns. > > What would be the best way to manage large applications like Ad

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, josbal wrote: > Have you found a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue > after upgrading to puppet 0.25.4 and passenger. > > The error message im getting is: Error 400 on SERVER: Not authorized > to call find on /file_metadata/hp_psp/opsywnsr0099.au

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > >>> Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. > This > >>> won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? > >> > >> it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node > >> classifier is called ;)

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
ave one environment specified in the config file and another environment is returned by a fact called 'environment'. I haven't had time to nail them down into a bug report, and since I worked out external node providers can access the client facts, I'm going to move towards the

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Abhishek wrote: > > > On Apr 11, 4:57 pm, Mark Nelson wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am using the following software - > > > > *Operating System: > > > > *Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron), Scientific Linux is a rebuild > > of Redhat Enterprise > > > > *Ruby ve

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Dan Bode wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: >> >>> >>> Assuming the client has puppeted at least onc

Re: [Puppet Users] How Does the Interaction Between Facter, Clients, and the Server work

2010-05-19 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jeff Falgout wrote: > Group - > > I'm putting a presentation together for $work (a large .gov) and I want to > make sure I get my facts (pun intended) straight ... > Are the following steps for Facter-Client-Server interaction correct (I have > a feeling not): > 1

Re: [Puppet Users] is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:34 PM, windowsrefund wrote: > Despite taking great care to keep my manifests clean and logical, my > code is growing both in size and complexity. That said, I'm starting > to wonder if there are any tools I can use that would run through my > entire tree and display some

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: is anyone using a tool to diagram their manifests?

2010-05-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:44 PM, windowsrefund wrote: > > > > > > you mean like "puppetd --graph" to produce dot files? > > > > --graph doesn't seem to be valid. Can you elaborate? > Add --graph to your run however you invoke it (it needs something to graph), like: sudo puppetd --test --graph t

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Ken Barber wrote: > > Douglas - what you are trying to do isn't supported in say 0.25.x > > without compromising. I think the discussion regarding you using > > external nodes is a waste of time - I'd rath

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: More External Nodes

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Douglas Garstang < > doug.garst...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, May

Re: [Puppet Users] Replace some text

2010-05-21 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Marley Bacelar writes: > > > I need to replace some text in a file... there is some type, that i can > pass > > a value and to be replace and the destination file? > > I know this sounds like a great idea, but decades of experience with pu

Re: [Puppet Users] parsing puppet YAML

2010-05-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
You can load it in Python, you just need to do a bit more extra work first. I can get you an example on Monday or whenever Comcast fix my home internet connection... On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Ohad Levy wrote: > Hi Luke, > > Thats a dump of a ruby object in yaml, meaning that if you woul

Re: [Puppet Users] parsing puppet YAML

2010-05-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Baker, Luke Jefferson wrote: > Hey there, > > > > I’ve playing with parsing some of the yaml data that puppet creates. Has > anyone had luck doing this with python or the like? It seems that in every > yaml file, there is a comment at the top of the file like thi

Re: [Puppet Users] customizing an existing type & provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
Have you considered just pinning this package via a file and requiring that before this resource? On May 23, 2010 3:31 PM, "Hercynium" wrote: Good afternoon. I've just started playing with puppet, and I'm currently stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish the following: I want to add a prop

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems with apt package installs

2010-05-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Matt Southerden writes: > > > I'm new to puppet, and I have a couple of apt related problems I'm > > struggling to find solutions to. > > > > Firstly, we'd like to run an apt-get upgrade the very first time a > > node goes under puppet's c

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems with apt package installs

2010-05-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Gabriel - IP Guys < gabr...@impactteachers.com> wrote: > I'm still very new to puppet, and I've been away for the last few days, > so please forgive me if my answer is old. But if you want to ensure that > your repos are upto date, do what you would do on a normal

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: customizing an existing type & provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Hercynium wrote: > On May 23, 8:14 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > Have you considered just pinning this package via a file and requiring > that > > before this resource? > > I have, and already implemented that, thanks! :) However I can

Re: [Puppet Users] Problems with apt package installs

2010-05-24 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > "Gabriel - IP Guys" writes: > > > I'm still very new to puppet, and I've been away for the last few days, > so > > please forgive me if my answer is old. But if you want to ensure that > your > > repos are upto date, do what you would do o

Re: [Puppet Users] External Nodes Require a Forklift?

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > Does switching to external nodes require a forklift approach? > > The other day, I specified an external node script in puppet.conf, and > puppet complained about every single node that wasn't handled by the > external script. It would be

Re: [Puppet Users] Toplevel domain and facter

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Klaus Ethgen > wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Am Do den 27. Mai 2010 um 17:05 schrieb Paul Nasrat: > > I maintain facter - if it's not in redmine it may get missed. > > Oh well... :-) > > > > Ah, thanks. I didn't find this link anyw

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Toplevel domain and facter (Offtopic)

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM, seph wrote: > Nigel Kersten writes: > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Klaus Ethgen > > < > klaus%2bpup...@ethgen.de > > > >> Ah. Bad. I have no account there and I dislike the idea to create a > >> account

Re: [Puppet Users] External nodes Ignore Missing Classes

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > All, > > I just did a super simple test where I used the simple external nodes > script at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html. > > I ran it against an existing node (which you have to since I don't see > how you can tell

Re: [Puppet Users] External Nodes Require a Forklift?

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Michael DeHaan > wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Garstang > > wrote: > >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten > wrote: > >>> &

Re: [Puppet Users] External Nodes Require a Forklift?

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Douglas Garstang < > doug.garst...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On

Re: [Puppet Users] External nodes Ignore Missing Classes

2010-05-27 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Douglas Garstang < > doug.garst...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> All, > >&

[Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-05-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
I mentioned we had a custom fact for the client certname in IRC the other day and someone poked fun at me as it's apparently built in. For the life of me I can't work out what variable it is. Anyone know? (our certnames bear no relationship to any other attribute, fqdn etc) -- nigel -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-05-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Dan Bode wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> I mentioned we had a custom fact for the client certname in IRC the other >> day and someone poked fun at me as it's apparently built in. >

Re: [Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-05-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nigel Kersten wrote: > > I mentioned we had a custom fact for the client certname in IRC the > > other day and someone poked fun at me as it's apparently buil

Re: [Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-05-28 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > >> Anyone see any problems with doing it like this? > > > >> require 'puppet' > > > >> Fact

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Package Management - how far do you go?

2010-05-29 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > I have a "basenode" class which installs most of the packages needed on a > specific server. For the database servers, we ensure mysql is installed, > setup the directory structure, etc. > > But what about "one off" servers? For instance,

Re: [Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-06-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:17 PM, James Turnbull wrote: > John Warburton wrote: > > > > This is nice. Can we go the whole hog and provide all configuration > > options as facts? Could have a unique name space of something like > > CONF_variable --> CONF_certname > > I though I logged a feature req

Re: [Puppet Users] External CA management

2010-06-03 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:58 AM, piir wrote: > > 2010/5/6 piir D.K > > Hello, >> >> I'm tryning to have puppet working whitout handling any part of a pki. >> On one side I've got a puppet installation working, on the other side >> a PKI.(dogtag) >> >> I try to tell puppetmasterd to use my CA.crt

Re: [Puppet Users] Initial puppet instance configuring a client to look elsewhere?

2010-06-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Our DNS naming scheme works like this: > > servername..host-name.net > > I'd like to be able to create a single server image with puppet configured > that can work with multiple data centers. Right now, my image is tied to a > single data c

Re: [Puppet Users] accessing client certname in manifests?

2010-06-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM, James Turnbull > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Nigel Kersten wrote: >> > I mentioned we had a custom fact for t

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

2010-06-04 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Marcus, Allan B wrote: > 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 bas

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

2010-06-05 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Chuck wrote: > Thanks for the white paper it was very helpful. A few questions > though, if you can answer it. With the large client base how are you > setting up your puppet master(s) to hand the workload? > > eg. 1 puppetmaster running passenger with apache? >

Re: [Puppet Users] Passing different facts to external node classifier scripts

2010-06-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Gary Larizza wrote: > Is there a way to pass something other than the certname fact that is being > passed to an external node classifier script? I'm looking through > puppet/indirector/exec.rb and puppet/indirector/node/exec.rb but am not > seeing a way to change

Re: [Puppet Users] Can recipe variables be set at the command line?

2010-06-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM, chuck clark wrote: > I'd like to be able to override or set a variable from the command line. > Is this possible? The only discussion I've been able to stumble upon is > this feature/issue: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1411 > > My use case is the followi

Re: [Puppet Users] Can recipe variables be set at the command line?

2010-06-08 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM, chuck clark wrote: > Thanks Nigel. > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > Just to clarify and document for others who may arrive here from Google in > search of an answer to a similar question... > > >> >&g

[Puppet Users] Input sought on changing default vardir on OS X.

2010-06-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
0.25.5 changed the default vardir from /var/puppet to /var/lib/puppet and it's caused the odd issue we have to fix in the Mac pkg preflights. After re-reading 'man hier' I'm tempted to change the default on OS X to: /var/db/puppet instead. /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, trans

Re: [Puppet Users] Input sought on changing default vardir on OS X.

2010-06-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
central or >> field).  We're still in the "thinking about it" stage, so we haven't fully >> implemented it yet.  We have currently defined our central services $vardir >> as /var/lanl/puppet. >> >> Regards, >> -Roy >> >> On 6/9/1

Re: [Puppet Users] Input sought on changing default vardir on OS X.

2010-06-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Gary Larizza wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Gary Larizza wrote: >> > Nigel, >> > We're trained to check /var/db for pkgdmg trigger files any

Re: [Puppet Users] exec hanging with CentOS4/64-bit

2010-06-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM, wrote: > I have my sudoers setup as per the puppet training class recommendation: > >file { "/etc/sudoers.check": >content => template("etc/sudoers.erb"), >mode => 440, >notify => Exec['sudo-check'], >

Re: [Puppet Users] Client connecting to 2 puppet masters

2010-06-10 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mark wrote: > We have a server where the OS and base services are managed by an > external company. They use puppet to handle this. > > We would also like to use puppet to manage the configuration of the > server for which we are responsible, mostly apache virtual

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