puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for August 2015

27	[Puppet Users] Puppet node does not pull changes from master's catalogs in site.pp or node.pp ?

Hi I Setup a Open Source Puppet Master and a Puppet Agent client on Linux CentOS release 6.6, Puppet 3.8.1 on two separate servers. Have successfully setup communications between both servers (cert ...

Chuck Amadi
Aug 27, 2015 at 2:21 am
Aug 30, 2015 at 5:25 am

21	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-postgrest module not loaded

Hi all. Using Puppet open source 3.8 with hiera for test purpose. I installed puppetlabs-postgresql from forge but when on my puppet client yaml I use postgresql I got the following error: Error ...

Alfredo De Luca
Aug 29, 2015 at 4:31 am
Sep 9, 2015 at 11:39 am

14	[Puppet Users] how were your puppet 3->4 upgrades?

I am not seeing a large amount of blog entries complaining about this upgrade, how has that gone for you? Is there anything you found particularly painful? Would you have done anything different in ...

Christopher Wood
Aug 24, 2015 at 7:59 pm
Aug 28, 2015 at 2:19 am

10	[Puppet Users] Puppet Windows Automation

Hi Guys, So I've been working with puppet on windows and I think my approach is all wrong. I've been using the puppetlabs/powershell module to run commands, however I'm having difficulty with exit ...

Thomas Bartlett
Aug 27, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Sep 1, 2015 at 8:00 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Puppet dashboard Debian Jessie

Hi, I try to install puppet-dashboard from Debian respository, but see the error : puppet-dashboard depends on ruby1.8 ( = 1.8.7); however: Package ruby1.8 is not installed. puppet-dashboard depends ...

Marcos Renato
Aug 28, 2015 at 12:42 am
Aug 28, 2015 at 12:17 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Check code quality with SonarQube

Hi, Iain and I developed a SonarQube <http://www.sonarqube.org/ plugin to check code quality of Puppet modules. This first version comes with over 40 rules spanning from potential bugs to coding ...

David Racodon
Aug 19, 2015 at 6:13 am
Aug 21, 2015 at 7:58 am

7	[Puppet Users] How do you track large lists of modules?

I'm wondering how people track large lists of modules, to ensure new team members know which does what, when the last time a module was reviewed for usefulness, etc. How do you handle growth and ...

Leam hall
Aug 28, 2015 at 9:00 pm
Aug 30, 2015 at 10:18 am

7	[Puppet Users] puppet template syntax problem: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

I was going through the Puppet Learning doc. Got to the template section and the ERB file, which is using the 'each' method to print the $real_servers. The puppet run fails with pointing to the ...

Lunixer
Aug 18, 2015 at 3:16 pm
Aug 21, 2015 at 4:39 am

7	[Puppet Users] Help with NTP module provided by puppetlabs

Hi All, I have many servers spread in 3 different time zones USA (NY and San Francisco) and also in ISR. Have 3 NTP servers, one NTP server in each location ...

Eddie Mashayev
Aug 9, 2015 at 2:25 pm
Aug 17, 2015 at 9:58 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Augeas failing when acting on smb.conf

Hello everyone! I am trying to run puppet agent on a SL-6 Machine and one action I'm trying to apply is to add the machine to our domain. However I ran into an issue when running puppet agent -t ...

Fabrizio Zelaya
Aug 3, 2015 at 9:03 pm
Aug 4, 2015 at 2:55 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Anonymous block scope?

Hi, is there a way to have anonymous block scope in puppet? In a couple of languages you can simply create limited scope by opening and closing curly braces {...} I'd like to use this to limit the ...

Christian Flamm
Aug 27, 2015 at 11:03 am
Aug 28, 2015 at 7:29 am

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet Server install basic problems

Guys, First, I'm sorry for the basic question. I'm just starting on Puppet. I've been trying to install Puppet Server following this guide ...

Sarsa-JP
Aug 16, 2015 at 9:38 pm
Aug 17, 2015 at 12:31 pm

6	[Puppet Users] How to make file_line autocreate files?

Hello, I am trying to manage my dsh groups with Puppet. The way I'm trying to do this: - each node has a block like this in its manifest: @@file_line { "${::fqdn} in dsh group ${group}": line = ...

Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale
Aug 4, 2015 at 10:29 am
Aug 4, 2015 at 1:05 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Why variables standing by themselves should be quoted in resource titles and only there?

Hi, The Puppet Language Style Guide states at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#quoting that "Variables standing by themselves should not be quoted, unless they are a resource ...

David Racodon
Aug 15, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Sep 8, 2015 at 3:22 am

5	[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] Debian Testing and Debian Stable leaving apt.puppetlabs.com

To clarify, because this has confused other people too: does this mean that you won’t be able to run Puppet from an official package on Debian Stable? Or is there another repo that can be added, ...

Daniel Parks
Aug 13, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Aug 31, 2015 at 5:41 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Puppet Module spec testing

Is there a newer set of documents on doing Spec testing of Puppet modules than this link? https://puppetlabs.com/blog/the-next-generation-of-puppet-module-testing I am running into a brick wall ...

Peter Berghold
Aug 4, 2015 at 7:37 pm
Aug 28, 2015 at 11:00 am

5	[Puppet Users] Puppet agent run runs slowly

Hi, i searched quite a bit with google but cannot really find an idea of what to change. If i do a puppet agent run on a few of my managed servers i get the following results: Notice: Finished ...

Constantin Wolber
Aug 25, 2015 at 7:49 am
Aug 27, 2015 at 9:07 am

5	[Puppet Users] install_options with package in windows

Hi Team, I am trying to install vda with puppet. #VDAServerSetup.exe /quiet /components vda,plugins /controllers "mydev.example.com" /enable_hdx_ports /optimize /enable_remote_assistance ...

Kaustubh chaudhari
Aug 19, 2015 at 4:40 pm
Aug 21, 2015 at 2:02 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Help with hiera.yaml config

Hi, I have the following config. :backends: - yaml - json :yaml: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata :hierarchy: - nodes/%{::fqdn} - sudoroles/%{::sudoroles} - common In sudorules I have twho files with ...

Patrick G.
Aug 10, 2015 at 8:54 am
Aug 13, 2015 at 1:28 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Speed issue when copying 'n' files

Hello guys, So the scenario is as follows: On a virtual host I've got 10 linux containers and each container has a website associated with. Therefore, for that website to work I have to copy around ...

Sergiu Cornea
Aug 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Sep 1, 2015 at 7:56 am

4	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-splunk doesn't appear to be future-parser compliant

Is the official supported puppetlabs-splunk module 'not' future parser compatible ? Create a foo.pp containing: class { 'splunk::forwarder': } Run puppet apply --noop with the future parser disabled ...

Vince Skahan
Aug 20, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Aug 21, 2015 at 3:28 pm

4	[Puppet Users] 2015.2 strange message

Spun up a 2015.2 system and every time an agent runs we see "Error: Facter: error while resolving custom facts in /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib/facter/portage.rb: cannot load such file -- ...

Vince Skahan
Aug 13, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Aug 17, 2015 at 8:37 pm

4	[Puppet Users] validating array property in custom_type

Hi all! I'm having trouble with a custom type's type-wide validate call. I've done a lot of digging into the Puppet documentation and a lot of Googling and haven't found a lot of guidance. My Puppet ...

Jwilkicki
Aug 7, 2015 at 8:48 pm
Aug 11, 2015 at 8:58 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Passing data between hosts

Scenario: Managing DNS via Puppet. On the master I need to be aware of slave NS servers so that the NS record can be put into the zone file. Creating a zone you supply an array with the name of all ...

Matthew Ceroni
Aug 7, 2015 at 12:23 am
Aug 7, 2015 at 5:36 am

4	[Puppet Users] Hiera lookup

Hello guys, I am trying to specify in the Hiera file which website should be a CMS like wordpress and which should just be a static website, however, doesn't matter what value I am having in the ...

Sergiu Cornea
Aug 5, 2015 at 10:41 am
Aug 5, 2015 at 1:24 pm

3	[Puppet Users] MCollective Plugins - Can I Install with Puppet Collections?

To all: This is hopefully a simple question: Prior to the Puppet 4 upgrade, I was using the Puppetlabs repo to install the Puppet agent along with MCollective and a few (puppet, service) MCollective ...

Chad Thompson
Aug 31, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Sep 8, 2015 at 3:09 am

3	[Puppet Users] How to get tag email for specific notice while overall tag level set to err?

Hi all, I am using Puppet 3.7.3 and have a question about tagmail. My tagmail.conf is setup to send email only when there is err and above: *err, alert, emerg, crit: <span class="m_body_email_addr" ...

Staceytian4321
Aug 31, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Sep 2, 2015 at 1:25 am

3	[Puppet Users] 3.8.2 can't display used licenses, can't clear bogus usage count

I'm running PE 3.8.2 and doing a lot of build/nuke/build cycles in vagrant, so I need to watch my license usage. My server currently shows 5/10 licenses used although there's only one client ...

Vince Skahan
Aug 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm
Aug 31, 2015 at 9:19 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet Server dying with high number of JRuby instances

Hello, we tried to today to migrate our Puppet Masters from Apache/Passenger to Puppet Server 1.1.1. However, Puppet Server just dies with error messages as soon as we increase the number of JRuby ...

Dietrich, Stefan
Aug 25, 2015 at 11:05 am
Aug 26, 2015 at 1:49 pm

3	Re: [Puppet Users] Utopic leaving apt.puppetlabs.com

Please don't remove it or at least provide some kind of archive (not arguing that there will be no updates, just don't remove the files). -- -- http://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher ...

Martin
Aug 20, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Aug 20, 2015 at 4:52 pm

3	[Puppet Users] How to add user in centos 6.6 from puppetserver to puppetAgent

I want add user from PuppetMaster to PuppetAgent with authorities root or user use. I'll have to configure or code ,how? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ...

Huynh Tran
Aug 6, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Aug 13, 2015 at 3:15 am

3	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB module errors and frustrations...

Greetings, I am really stuggling here and would love another set of eyes. After a failed attempt to migrate to Puppet 4 (my crappy modules need more work then I have time for), I went back to Puppet ...

Stack Kororā
Aug 10, 2015 at 8:01 pm
Aug 11, 2015 at 12:04 am

3	[Puppet Users] Array of tags not applying to resource

First of all: I'm running puppet 3.6.2, as we are not in a position to move to Puppet 4 yet/ When I try to apply an array of tags to an exported resource, as I should be able to according to docs ...

Robert Davidson
Aug 6, 2015 at 10:39 pm
Aug 10, 2015 at 3:21 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Mixing hiera and site.pp

Hi, I'm going through an initial deployment of Puppet and was looking to use hiera as much as possible, but it seems that many existing modules do not have hiera support. The question I have is, is ...

Alexander Dacre
Aug 5, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Aug 7, 2015 at 6:01 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Virtual resources not refreshing, how to clean out and re-do?

I have a problem where a virtual resource has, in an early run, got the wrong value. I've fixed the manifest so that the virtual resource gets the correct values and I've rerun Puppet on the node ...

Steve Wray
Aug 5, 2015 at 6:10 pm
Aug 6, 2015 at 2:39 pm

3	[Puppet Users] PE windows agent ?

Hello all, I am trying to figure out how to install puppet enterprise agent on a windows box...while on LInux we just simple do below to install PE agent curl -k https://<MASTER HOSTNAME ...

Max scalf
Aug 3, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Aug 4, 2015 at 12:37 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Cloud init configuration management with Puppet

I thought this would be super easy but hit a road block (at least in terms of an elegance solution - yes I know how to use exec type with sed and grep but that feels a bit to much like a workaround) ...

Craig Barr
Aug 24, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Sep 1, 2015 at 7:44 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet template for elasticsearch.yml.erb

Hi All, I am new to puppet template and need your help to update the different cluster name to elasticsearch.erb based on the environments (QA,staging,prod) init.pp $QA = ...

Miki
Aug 30, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Aug 31, 2015 at 1:21 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Can I store my hiera data file inside puppet agent side

Hi, Can I store and use my hiera data file in my puppet agent machine rather than storing in in puppet master ? Then how can I do it ? Regards, Malintha -- You received this message because you are ...

Malintha Adikari
Aug 31, 2015 at 4:44 am
Aug 31, 2015 at 1:04 pm

2	[Puppet Users] How can I send parameters to a required class?

I'm using the something like this since I want all of class bar to be applied before any class foo: # init.pp for module bar class bar( $var = "hello" ) { } # something.pp in module foo class ...

Francis Chan
Aug 27, 2015 at 11:44 am
Aug 28, 2015 at 1:12 pm

2	[Puppet Users] keep changing owner

Hi, When running puppet agent -t I get Notice: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]/owner: owner changed 'puppet' to 'root' Notice: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]/group: group changed 'puppet' to 'root' And then ...

Patrick G.
Aug 13, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Aug 24, 2015 at 9:41 am

2	[Puppet Users] hiera - data retrieved once or everytime a lookup is required

Hi, I'm looking into hiera particularly the http backend (https://github.com/crayfishx/hiera-http). I'm wandering when using hiera if a single lookup is done at the start of the puppet run or if ...

Andrew Hibbert
Aug 20, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Aug 21, 2015 at 7:15 am

2	[Puppet Users] How to set puppet runintervel to neverrun?

I don't want to fetch the configuration for particular interval. example default runintervel = 30min. I want to never fetch the configuration. How to set this value. -- You received this message ...

Ayyanar
Aug 17, 2015 at 9:38 am
Aug 18, 2015 at 6:08 am

2	[Puppet Users] puppet-agent source package for debian

I have been trying to install puppet 4 (master) on a Raspberry Pi 2 with raspbian. It seems that even though the repository at apt.puppetlabs.com defines the armhf architecture then the package named ...

Jacob Larsen
Aug 17, 2015 at 6:49 am
Aug 17, 2015 at 9:50 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Top scope variables and hiera

After using hiera for a few months, I started to find a lot of keys with the same value in my common.yam: --- provisioning::server: 'same.old.node' kickstart::server: 'same.old.node' puppet::server ...

Puppeteer123
Aug 16, 2015 at 8:25 am
Aug 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm

2	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB and Debian Jessie

Hi everybody, does somebody know when the puppetdb packages will be available to build a complete puppet master/server based on Debian Jessie? Best Regards Oli -- You received this message because ...

Oliver Schad
Aug 14, 2015 at 8:19 am
Aug 14, 2015 at 10:28 pm

2	[Puppet Users] [Style Guide] No recommendation about quoting or not element of an enumerable set of options

Hi, The style guide <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#quoting is stating that "Quoting is optional when the string is an enumerable set of options (such as present/absent)". But it ...

David Racodon
Aug 12, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Aug 14, 2015 at 7:34 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet 3.8.2 available

Puppet 3.8.2 is a bug fix release (with future parser changes) in the Puppet 3.8 series. The main focus of this release is to make sure the 3.8 future parser is forward-compatible with the Puppet ...

Kylo Ginsberg
Aug 7, 2015 at 12:52 am
Aug 10, 2015 at 9:02 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Example for type/provider with a program as backend?

Hi, I want to write a type/provider for Sun Grid Engine/Open Grid Scheduler/etc. configuration. The configuration is (for the most part) managed by a pair of commands, for example "qconf -sc" will ...

Tim Landscheidt
Aug 5, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Aug 9, 2015 at 4:31 am

2	[Puppet Users] hiera behaviour

Hi, I'm updating an existing Puppet module so that I can use it with Hiera. The node yaml files contains the following selinux::mode: 'enforcing' selinux::booleans: 'httpd_can_network_connect' ...

Alexander Dacre
Aug 5, 2015 at 9:51 am
Aug 5, 2015 at 10:02 am

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