puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for April 2012

7	[Puppet Users] Puppet agent hostname/domain change

Hi Everybody, I have a puppet setup working, but run into issue, which couldn't figure out how to solve. Say I have puppet agent generated certificate and signed it on puppet master. If somehow ...

Artyom Krilov
Apr 18, 2012 at 7:12 am
May 14, 2013 at 12:51 am

3	[Puppet Users] Creating configuration for dhcpd

Hi, I am trying to set up puppet for creating configuration files for automatic installation. I have a node which runs both puppet master and dhcp server. On this node I wanna create configuration ...

Jiří Červenka
Apr 26, 2012 at 11:56 am
Jun 7, 2012 at 1:32 pm

4	[Puppet Users] RSpec test to verify variable/parameter declaration

I have a module in which parameterized classes inherit regular (non- parameterized) 'params' class. I am writing RSpec tests for this module and would like to make sure that required variables have ...

Shantanu
Apr 23, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Jun 4, 2012 at 8:13 am

10	[Puppet Users] Installing Jenkins with Puppet fails to import GPG key

I've asked this question over on serverfault<http://serverfault.com/questions/382158/installing-jenkins-with-puppet-fails-to-import-gpg-key , but had no response. I'm trying to install Jenkins with ...

Michael Harris
Apr 25, 2012 at 11:24 pm
May 23, 2012 at 9:09 pm

9	[Puppet Users] Moving from Puppet 0.25 to Puppet 2.6+ : global scope/variables

Hi, I worked with puppet (< 0.25) back in 2008/2009. We were able to deploy 200 servers from scratch and manage them. It worked fine. I'm now with a new customer and I'm pushing Puppet (and I'm also ...

Calimero
Apr 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm
May 18, 2012 at 7:35 pm

1	Re: [Puppet Users] Facter not initialized in rspec in puppetlabs-stdlib?

Yes, please file a ticket at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/stdlib You'll need to register an account if you don't already have one. If it's a somewhat substantial patch could you also ...

Jeff McCune
Apr 16, 2012 at 9:02 pm
May 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm

9	[Puppet Users] Having trouble getting puppet to set users/groups to a defined state

I'm hoping I'm just missing something simple. I ran across this in my deployment setup and have replicated in a simple set of manifests. command output and the manifests below. basically start with a ...

Steve Roberts
Apr 17, 2012 at 3:04 am
May 16, 2012 at 2:44 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Can you check a setting set in puppet.conf from within a module

Hi List, In a module that I am developing I would like to do different things depending on if storeconfigs is true or false. Is there any way to: if $storeconfigs == true { # Use stored config values ...

Peter Foley
Apr 24, 2012 at 9:14 pm
May 4, 2012 at 7:08 am

15	[Puppet Users] puppet way of handling rdist and triggers

We have an existing "management system" of sorts, based on rdist. I'd like to know the best way to migrate it to using puppet. Currently, we have a local binaries tree, rdisted out nightly. We also ...

Philip Brown
Apr 27, 2012 at 3:06 pm
May 3, 2012 at 1:18 am

7	[Puppet Users] autosign

Does autosign work? I have a scratch workstation that may be rebuilt frequently and will therefore acquire a new client certificate. I was hoping that adding its certificate name to ...

C R Ritson
Apr 24, 2012 at 8:34 am
May 2, 2012 at 4:49 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Conditional directory creation

Hi, I have a modul which created the vhosts and based on the variables defined there i am creating nagios defacement host cfg. My problem is that I can't conditionally decide if the file should be ...

Peter Horvath
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm
May 2, 2012 at 10:23 am

2	[Puppet Users] querying hiera data without providing host/scope

Hello there, I need to access the following hiera data in a script: $ hiera -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml tomcats environment=development line=intra3 ["tc7_test1", "tc7_test8"] or $ hiera -c ...

Andreas Paul
Apr 30, 2012 at 1:52 pm
May 2, 2012 at 8:37 am

1	[Puppet Users] err: Could not send report: Error 400 on SERVER: execution expired

Hey there! All my clients have gone "out of sync" are have the following line in the puppet.out log file... err: Could not send report: Error 400 on SERVER: execution expired The clients appear to ...

Demon
Apr 27, 2012 at 2:22 pm
May 2, 2012 at 12:08 am

2	[Puppet Users] Require => Package from a different server

Hi. I have to install a client/server app. The server end is easily set up but I need a puppet module that ensures a package is installed on a managed node only if the server package has already been ...

Phil Cooper
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:26 pm
May 1, 2012 at 12:05 pm

0	[Puppet Users] accessing a variable within a previously declared instance of a defined type

I'm trying to define a static media server that uses a common website layout (e.g. with directories `etc/`, `log/`, `html/`, etc.), as well as an nginx config that will get included into a host-wide ...

Gary Wilson
Apr 30, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 11:23 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Uninstalling/downgrading a module?

Hey all, Are there any patterns or recommendations on uninstalling or downgrading a puppet module (read as software) on a node? An example would be that we're running with = latest or a specific ...

Chris Hirsch
Apr 30, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 8:02 pm

0	[Puppet Users] Accessing Modulefile variables within templates

Hi, Sorry if this has been answered somewhere. I haven't found the answer (albeit I could have invested more time on it) anywhere. I'd like to access the version of the module within templates of the ...

Jose San Leandro
Apr 30, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 7:34 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Using backreferences from node name regex match

I appears that backreferences when using regexes in node names doesn't work. Can anyone confirm this? If I'm incorrect, how do I go about using a backreference to the name regex within the node ...

Guy Knights
Apr 26, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 5:52 pm

6	[Puppet Users] trouble w/ Foreman as ENC, agents and environments

Hi, I have a Puppet Enterprise (2.0) puppetmaster running with Foreman, and having trouble getting it working as an External Node Classifier. In short, if I manually add a test client into site.pp, ...

Droog72
Apr 27, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 5:51 pm

1	[Puppet Users] managing some directories

I need to manage some directories, ensure they are created/present, owner/groups/modes are correct. I have a static list of directories that will be present on this group of servers. However, down ...

James Dehune
Apr 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:01 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Includes and parametrized class redefinition

Hello I have some code that works like the simplified clase shown below. The idea is to have a define "foo" that includes a class "foo::pre" which contains resources that need to be executed before ...

Andre Nathan
Apr 27, 2012 at 11:40 am
Apr 30, 2012 at 1:36 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Is there a way to see find out if a module is installed for use?

Hi List, Is there a puppet command to find out what modules are available for use or at least a module to return a boolean value if you pass it a module name you wish to use? I am looking to do ...

Peter Foley
Apr 29, 2012 at 7:42 am
Apr 30, 2012 at 11:57 am

1	[Puppet Users] How to publish unstandard packages in puppet

I have some old packages which was not in standard RPM/DEB packages. We have our own deployment process likes this: All the packages are in a directory, which likes the following ...

Shoujin Wang
Apr 30, 2012 at 1:10 am
Apr 30, 2012 at 10:41 am

4	[Puppet Users] Creating a system module path (starting with Telly)

There was some discussion and concern about moving the Nagios types/providers out of the core area of Puppet for Telly. We made a mistake of talking about a point solution to a problem rather than ...

Michael Stahnke
Apr 23, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 10:36 am

1	[Puppet Users] problem loading page

Hi All, My puppet dashboard has been working fine. I was just refreshing the page and suddenly I got "problem loading page" and "The connection was reset error". I restarted everything, mysqld, ...

Kc
Apr 27, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 1:10 am

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet stdlib - Is there a validate_in function

Hi List, As part of my module pre-checks I would like to confirm that a value passed in for the state of a package is part of two valid values. Currently I am doing this by: $valid_ensure_values = [ ...

Peter Foley
Apr 28, 2012 at 5:11 am
Apr 29, 2012 at 4:21 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Agent thundering herd solutions?

I'm hoping to have all the puppet agents run on a 20 minute interval with 480sec on either side. I don't want to launch the agent from cron in order to achieve a level of randomness. Is there a ...

Ryan Bowlby
Apr 27, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Apr 29, 2012 at 12:00 am

10	[Puppet Users] Analysing some puppetmaster logs to find out what's happening on an agent

Hi all, in an unfortunate incident, I managed to lock myself out of a client's server. Basically an openssh module that by default disabled remote root logins did that on a server that was only ...

Walter Heck
Apr 24, 2012 at 2:43 am
Apr 28, 2012 at 6:18 pm

4	[Puppet Users] scaling puppet, skipping puppetmaster?

I've heard that after (some # of machines) x (some size of manifests) puppet does not scale well, due to bottlenecking on the puppetmaster. Anyone doing large scale use by some other methods? For ...

Philip Brown
Apr 27, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Apr 28, 2012 at 2:58 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Certificate's

Sorry to resurrect an old(er) thread, but: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3360#note-33 leads me to believe none of those workarounds are necessary, just allow_duplicate_cert However, ...

Allister Banks
Apr 27, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Apr 28, 2012 at 1:36 am

5	[Puppet Users] Parametrized classes, definitions and structure

Hi, I've written a set of Puppet modules to manage servers, but am slightly concerned about the structure I've used as it seems to differ significantly from anything else I've seen in Puppet ...

Andy Taylor
Apr 24, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Apr 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Re: Why latest stable Debian Squeeze package is 2.6.2-5+squeeze4 please ?

Hello Mike, Sorry for the late feedback. On this page http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/installation.html it is written " OS Packages If installing from a distribution maintained package, such as ...

Christophe L
Apr 24, 2012 at 9:35 am
Apr 27, 2012 at 1:17 am

2	[Puppet Users] Optional values from Hiera (no default value)

Hello Puppet List, I'm writing a module that should take an optional value and I want to get it (amongst other places) from Hiera. $repository = $::java_repository ? { undef = ...

Lars Francke
Apr 26, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 10:25 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Templating DHCP3-Server Need To Loop Through Subnets

I know the title doesn't define what I am trying to do very well but this is what I'd like to accomplish. I have a params.pp which defines the subnets I would like to have setup in my ...

Brian Carpio
Apr 26, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 6:42 pm

0	[Puppet Users] Help with parametrized class include

Hello I have some puppet code that does the equivalent of the following. The idea is to have a define "foo" with some actions that must be executed before it runs ("foo::pre"). Since the resources in ...

Andre Nathan
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:49 pm

2	[Puppet Users] extdata from MySQL

There doesn't seem to be much information about this on the web, but is it possible to use MySQL as a backend for handling extdata? It would be enormously easier for me to use a database that could ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:42 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Host/Agent should not install if there are no changes in file

Can you guys please help me address this host configuration? 1) I have 5 different modules that need to be installed to each host/agent 1.1) from one of the modules, a large application tar file is ...

Suresh
Apr 25, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm

0	[Puppet Users] Mac users: Textbucket scripts for puppet types

Hi Gang, If you're a mac user and haven't heard of text bucket, but find yourself typing the same things semi-often.. you might want to check it out. http://bassetsoftware.com/b.cgi/textbucket/index ...

Wolf Noble
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:25 pm

1	[Puppet Users] A simple solution to the "deep directory tree" problem

Hello, Like many others, I once again had to deal with creation of deep directory trees with puppet. I did the usual: file { [ "/a", "/a/b/", "/a/b/c"...]: ensure = directory } And again got sick of ...

Amos Shapira
Apr 26, 2012 at 7:56 am
Apr 26, 2012 at 1:47 pm

7	[Puppet Users] ordering or chaining for generate() function

Hi, I need to run a the generate() function (server side) in order to populate a data file for one of my modules. Is there a way to ensure that the generate function is run before a config file is ...

Psychobyte
Apr 24, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 1:16 pm

5	[Puppet Users] exec's onlyif parameter fails for a bash one-liner

I would like to 'exec' an installation script 'onlyif' an installation directory is empty. I tried using following bash one-liner however it didn't work: <code exec{$one_install_script: require = ...

Shantanu
Apr 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Apr 26, 2012 at 10:07 am

0	[Puppet Users] Looking for speakers for first puppet camp Asia

Hi all, we're trying to organise the first puppet camp in Asia (to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) for around June 5th. We're currently looking for 2-3 speakers to come and talk about puppet. Is ...

Walter Heck
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:05 am
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:05 am

1	[Puppet Users] File Loop, Possible??

Is there a way to define a single file resource or even exec resource like this: file { "$module::params::base_dir" : ensure = "directory" owner = "root" group = "root", } file { ...

Brian Carpio
Apr 25, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Apr 25, 2012 at 6:15 pm

8	[Puppet Users] What is the "false" directory?

Dear all, Since last night, Puppet is started creating a directory, named *false* in the present working directory, if I run *puppetd -t* manually on the puppet agent. The directory contents are like ...

Sans
Apr 24, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Apr 25, 2012 at 5:28 pm

2	[Puppet Users] hiera rpm

Hi, Just wondered if there are any plans to put a heira RPM in the puppetlabs yum repositories (for EL6)? http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/ So far there doesn't seem to be one. N -- You ...

Nick
Apr 25, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Apr 25, 2012 at 3:03 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Undiserable kernel upgrade in Ubuntu

Hi, I've defined this module: package {['build-essential', "linux-headers-${kernelrelease}", 'dkms', 'linux-headers-server']: ensure = installed, } and when the package linux-headers-server it's ...

Juan José Presa Rodal
Apr 25, 2012 at 8:53 am
Apr 25, 2012 at 2:30 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Exec and snmpd restart question

Hello Pros and users of Puppet. I have two problems with the following modul setup: My first problem that i tried every combination of require,notify,subscribe for the mail sending exec but it runs ...

Peter Horvath
Apr 25, 2012 at 10:04 am
Apr 25, 2012 at 2:15 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Unable to import a manifest file from a different directory to the one where site.pp is located using environments

Hi List, Puppet Version: v2.7.13 Question - If I correctly setup multiple manifestdir's in the puppet.conf file how can I import a node pp file located in a different directory tree to site.pp? My ...

Peter Foley
Apr 25, 2012 at 7:26 am
Apr 25, 2012 at 10:59 am

1	[Puppet Users] puppet + mysql = central users administration for yours servers

Hi all, article in Russian only, but it looks nice. http://habrahabr.ru/company/badoo/blog/142708/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group ...

Banuchka
Apr 25, 2012 at 8:56 am
Apr 25, 2012 at 9:34 am

6	[Puppet Users] Migrate installation to different directory

Hi Everyone; I want puppet to be installed in /app/puppet instead of the default /etc. I cannot figure out how to get the puppetmasterd to look for the config file (puppet.conf) in /app/puppet ...

JA
Apr 19, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Apr 25, 2012 at 8:56 am

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