puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for April 2016

10	[Puppet Users] Puppet install failure

Hi Folks, ..on CentOS 7 # rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm # yum install puppet-server # puppet resource package puppet-server ensure=latest After doing this, ...

Paul Trepanier
Apr 26, 2016 at 7:40 pm
Apr 27, 2016 at 3:38 pm

9	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB Issue with large array-valued fact

Hello all, We are running Puppet 4.2.2 and PuppetDB 3.2.0 with around 2400 nodes and growing. I am noticing some bad behavior with our PuppetDB, which is only going to get worse if what is below is ...

Mike Sharpton
Apr 19, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

9	[Puppet Users] python on puppet

Hi all, I am trying to manage python packages from puppet.I wanted to run the following commands *without using EXEC..* *After installing python-setuptools i tried to install pika using pip as ...

Bapi Loya
Apr 22, 2016 at 6:04 pm
Apr 22, 2016 at 9:25 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Hiera Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item classes in any Hiera data file and no default supplied

Hi, I'm currently testing hiera and I can't make it work. I get this error: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item classes in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at ...

Ugo Bellavance
Apr 19, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Apr 21, 2016 at 2:29 pm

7	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-release not signed

This morning I noticed on yum.puppetlabs.com that puppetlabs-release-6-12.noarch.rpm and puppetlabs-release-7-12.noarch.rpm are not signed (possibly others too, I didn't check). My yum cron job is ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Apr 20, 2016 at 9:11 am
Apr 21, 2016 at 5:44 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Getting augeas type to working on OS X

Hello, I'm working on automating of OS X vmware build using Puppet. I use Packer to build the base image (based on excellent work done in https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates) and take the ...

Amos Shapira
Apr 22, 2016 at 4:23 am
Apr 27, 2016 at 11:19 am

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet MultiMaster open source

Hi... Is it possible to get compile master, master of master and code manager (file sync) working in the open source versions? Specifically: puppetserver-2.3.1-1.el7.noarch ...

Geoff Galitz
Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 11:08 am

6	[Puppet Users] Strategies for "boring" packages

At work, we've written about 120 modules in our puppet code repository. About two dozen are "interesting", in that they have lots of parameters and configuration that is specific to our environment ...

J.T. Conklin
Apr 19, 2016 at 1:07 am
Apr 20, 2016 at 2:01 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Way to pass "arguments" into a subclass?

I am looking for a way to pass "arguments" through multiple includes into a subclass. Situation is like this: ----- Begin code ----- node 'a-file-server.ucdavis.edu' { include physicsnode } class ...

Omen Wild
Apr 28, 2016 at 8:03 pm
May 3, 2016 at 9:09 pm

5	[Puppet Users] pdxcat-nrpe, hiera data in command

Hi, I want to create a nrpe command using the pdxcat-nrpe, for check_ntp. My NTP servers would check against public servers, and all others will check against my internal NTP servers. The code looks ...

Ugo Bellavance
Apr 21, 2016 at 7:09 pm
Apr 22, 2016 at 8:02 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Patterns for multi-arch libraries...

Before we started using puppet at work, we didn't have a systematic process to install packages on our servers. As a result, we had servers in the same "role" that (unintentionally) had different ...

J.T. Conklin
Apr 19, 2016 at 1:13 am
Apr 20, 2016 at 1:40 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to Read New Files Dynamically with Hiera?

Hi, We need to manage many keys in Hiera. Since many people should be able to edit the keys and in order to avoid a complete mess I was thinking to work with many different files. The problem is that ...

Or
Apr 14, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Apr 18, 2016 at 12:19 pm

4	[Puppet Users] stdlib

Hi, Is it normal that when a new client connects to a master, stdlib is sync'd? Is that part of pluginsync? Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ...

Ugo Bellavance
Apr 14, 2016 at 7:48 pm
Apr 15, 2016 at 11:58 am

4	[Puppet Users] Puppet Types auto generator

Hello there, i'm looking for a puppet types generator tool / toolkit as we have an API (Restful interface) and spec files that we would like to convert to puppet types for some use. If anyone has any ...

Christoph Andreas Torlinsky
Apr 7, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Apr 9, 2016 at 4:57 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Setting var to undef does not override class or define defaults

On Puppet 4.4.1 I ran the following: class testingclass( $cmd_path = 'PluginDir', ){ $message_ntfy = "cmd_path is set to: ${cmd_path} for ${name}" notify { $message_ntfy: } } define testingdefine( ...

Erik Anderson
Apr 26, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 27, 2016 at 1:22 pm

3	[Puppet Users] using multiple EXECs

Hi all, I am building this module which has rpm packages in it and execs commands. What is the best way to build this module.. does writing numerous execs is a good way to start with?? Im finding my ...

Bapi Loya
Apr 22, 2016 at 5:24 am
Apr 22, 2016 at 6:05 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet on windows ignoring puppet.conf

Hello, we have been using puppet for unix machines for quite a while and it works fine. I have installed the latest puppet-agent (1.4.1) on Windows Server 2012R2. The installation went fine and the ...

Mattis Haase
Apr 19, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 21, 2016 at 11:56 am

3	[Puppet Users] Does the puppet agent start puppetmaster?

Hi all, I have been looking for some docs to get more information on the subject, but I have not been able to find them. Apologies if this has been asked before! I'm curious about what happens when a ...

César
Apr 18, 2016 at 10:05 am
Apr 18, 2016 at 5:14 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Documenting corner cases

Some of us (and I seem to be really good at this) run into edge cases that others often do not. The information is then stored in some obscure Jira ticket, GitHub issue, or just in someone's head ...

Rob Nelson
Apr 11, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Apr 17, 2016 at 11:11 pm

3	[Puppet Users] pe_repo - upgrade agents via puppet agent -t when the master is upgraded. - broken.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how you would use puppet to upgrade agents. Maybe my assumptions on how this 'should' work are wrong. I just migrated a puppet agent from a 2015.2.3 master to a ...

Brett Swift
Apr 14, 2016 at 9:11 pm
Apr 14, 2016 at 10:09 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Official Packages for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Hi, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is about to be released soon. Are there any plans to provide Puppet packages for it (I've currently installed the Wily packages on the RC)? Thanks... Dirk -- *Dirk ...

Dirk Heinrichs
Apr 13, 2016 at 7:31 am
Apr 14, 2016 at 6:34 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Error while evaluating a Resource Statement

I'm looking to use puppet for OS X management. I have puppet server 4.4.1 running and one OS X device connected to it. I'm trying to deploy simple manifest with module wfarr/osx_defaults. In site.pp ...

Ari
Apr 13, 2016 at 6:11 pm
Apr 14, 2016 at 3:25 pm

3	[Puppet Users] referencing boolean within puppet manifest

Hello all, I've recently experienced some inconsistencies around referencing Boolean values within a puppet manifest. We've written some custom Boolean facts and we look to the true/false values ...

Mike Reed
Apr 12, 2016 at 6:53 pm
Apr 14, 2016 at 11:31 am

3	[Puppet Users] using generated query string in a collector

Hi, Seems it is not possible, well, I cannot make it work. Depending on some class parameter, some exported resources should be collected or not. eg. class X ( $collect_tags = ['cond1', 'cond2'] ) { ...

Johan De Wit
Apr 4, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Apr 12, 2016 at 2:39 pm

3	[Puppet Users] facter 3 and at_exit

I've come across an issue with facter 3, when using at_exit. Basically, any at_exit blocks that refer to anything not in the top-level namespace (pardon my terminology) trigger an 'uninitialized ...

Clay Caviness
Apr 1, 2016 at 8:58 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 9:53 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet Enterprise install URL can not be Accessed

I am building out a Puppet Enterprise Install for a demo lab for work. I am using CentOS 7. I can download the Tarball and expand it. Then start the installer but when I go to use the URL from ...

Christopher Hampton
Apr 29, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Apr 29, 2016 at 11:54 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet enterprise 2016.1.1 installation failing with following error

My RedHat system do not have access to internet and while installing puppet . /var/log/puppetlabs/installer/install_log.lastrun.template2.example.com.log file for more info.+ display_newline ...

Ali
Apr 27, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 4:41 pm

2	[Puppet Users] cron subclass not working

Hi, I'm fairly new to puppet but I've been trying to create some puppet modules to help me maintain my various PCs/laptops at home. I have created the following module: my module init.pp contains ...

Tony Davis
Apr 26, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 8:00 am

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet Hiera Hash SubKey Interpolation

Hi All, Can you guys please help me to get the hiera hash subkey value in yaml files? What I have in exec.yaml talend::*exec_mount_points:* dataloading2: ad_user : 'user123' ad_password: 'test123' ...

Manoj Kumar
Apr 27, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 2:43 am

2	[Puppet Users] puppet 4.4 syntax help with nested fact using erb template (solved)

Hi, I'm trying to get a fact into a file. It worked fine in puppet 3.0.2 but now with 4.4 it doesn't work. It seems I'm not understanding the new syntax or maybe the scope level too? As I was writing ...

Aaron D
Apr 13, 2016 at 11:48 pm
Apr 14, 2016 at 10:15 pm

2	[Puppet Users] puppetdb unique facts list

Hi, I'm looking for a way to retrieve a list of fact names from puppetdb. I don't want to look for facts for a particular host, I'm trying to gather a complete list of unique fact names that exist ...

Jamese
Apr 11, 2016 at 6:08 am
Apr 11, 2016 at 6:45 am

2	[Puppet Users] remove vc/1, vc/2, etc. lines from /etc/securetty using augeas

Hi All! I'm trying to remove the vc/1-11 lines in my /etc/securetty file. Is there a way to elegantly do this? console vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 . . vc/10 vc/11 tty/1 tty/2 tty/3 . . . tty/10 tty/11 Doing: rm ...

KC
Apr 7, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Apr 9, 2016 at 12:33 am

2	[Puppet Users] Problem changing user password on Windows

Hi everyone, We have been using Puppet to manage Windows workstations at work and it has been able to manage most of our machines' configurations smoothly. However, I stumbled upon a problem when ...

Douglas Teixeira
Apr 7, 2016 at 9:24 pm
Apr 8, 2016 at 3:53 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Announce: puppet-client-tools (PuppetDB CLI) 1.0.0 is available!

puppet-client-tools 1.0.0 (PuppetDB CLI) - 2016-04-07 <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetdb-cli/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md#summary Summary Today we released the initial release of puppet-client-tools ...

AJ Roetker
Apr 8, 2016 at 12:20 am
Apr 8, 2016 at 7:22 am

1	[Puppet Users] Multiple puppet masters and problem with crl.pem

Hello, I'm deploying multiple puppetmasters (running latest puppet server AIO). So I have create a single puppet master acting as CA. I have no problem with this. But the problem I'm having is ...

Angel L. Mateo
Apr 27, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Apr 28, 2016 at 12:19 pm

1	[Puppet Users] manage passwords on several systems

Hi, I'm writing a manifest to distribute the puppet master's shadow passwords for selected users to the clients. If a user want to change the password (as it is 1month valid) on the puppet master, it ...

Filip hosten
Apr 26, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 3:13 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Puppet daemon not running

I have installed stock puppet (3.7.2) on Debian 8 and my puppet is refusing to run as a service when I try to invoke it. I can see that puppet.service start operation is timing out on a cronjob which ...

Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Apr 25, 2016 at 1:33 pm
Apr 25, 2016 at 3:29 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Installing puppet agent using curl from puppetmaster onto Solaris 10 i386

I know that I can install the puppet agent PE-2015.2 onto a Solaris 10 machine. I also know that it is supposedly possible to do it using the *curl* command like I do for EL6 machines. However, when ...

Warron.french
Apr 23, 2016 at 6:39 am
Apr 23, 2016 at 4:13 pm

1	[Puppet Users] how do I override this File resource

Hi all, i am trying to build a module to install Oracle server on Linux that utilises defined types in the module oradb::installdb.pp one of the checks in the oradb::installdb is this if ! ...

Kdo
Apr 22, 2016 at 1:12 am
Apr 22, 2016 at 1:19 pm

1	[Puppet Users] wdjijerman Zabbix module

Wondering if anyone uses this module? I think it does a fantastic job but did have a few questions around some of the defined types. For instance, if you set manage resources on agent it exports the ...

Matthew Ceroni
Apr 14, 2016 at 9:48 pm
Apr 15, 2016 at 1:49 am

1	[Puppet Users] windows vs. linux version compatibility

Still confused about the great version renumbering I guess, as well as version compatibility. We have an (admittedly old) linux-hosted 3.7.x server setup ('not' enabling future parser), and want to ...

Vince Skahan
Apr 13, 2016 at 6:23 pm
Apr 14, 2016 at 1:20 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Announce: The Fourth Generation of example42 Puppet modules

It might be interesting for Puppeteers hanging around here that example42 GmbH has just announced its Fourth Generation of Puppet modules. A blog post with more details and a short historical ...

Alessandro Franceschi
Apr 13, 2016 at 11:02 am
Apr 13, 2016 at 11:04 am

1	[Puppet Users] Puppet 4: Property values constrained by feature -vs- parameter constrained by feature

Hey all, Just wondering: Is there a reason I'm not understanding for why property values that include a :required_features option will raise a puppet error if the feature is not available, but ...

Johnson Earls
Apr 9, 2016 at 11:48 am
Apr 11, 2016 at 9:30 pm

1	[Puppet Users] PE Puppet Server startup error - .git removed

Hi all, trying to startup my PE 4.2 server, its complaining about a .git missing from puppet-code from puppetserver.conf 2016-04-08 13:53:34,273 INFO [main] [o.e.j.u.log] Logging initialized @13448ms ...

Mike r
Apr 8, 2016 at 6:20 pm
Apr 10, 2016 at 2:51 am

1	[Puppet Users] New Release. New Integrations. New Puppet.

Hi everyone, We’re excited to share our plans for the next decade of innovation from Puppet. You’ve been calling us Puppet for years and today we embraced it -- we changed our name from Puppet Labs ...

Lindsey Smith
Apr 7, 2016 at 8:13 pm
Apr 7, 2016 at 8:54 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue

Hello, I have a running puppetmaster with version 3.8.6. Now I'm trying to deploy a new puppetmaster 4 (using the puppetserver AIO package) that uses my current 3.8.6 puppetmaster as the CA. In this ...

Angel L. Mateo
Apr 5, 2016 at 12:49 pm
Apr 7, 2016 at 6:11 am

1	[Puppet Users] Significance of ca_name?

The documentation says -- The name to use the Certificate Authority certificate. Which sound like wrong grammar. The correct one must be -- The name to use for the Certificate Authority certificate ...

dE
Apr 2, 2016 at 11:36 am
Apr 4, 2016 at 3:31 pm

0	[Puppet Users] Error on puppet master

Hi, i'm quite new to puppet software. I'm trying to figure out weird error on my servers. error logs below ------------------------ [root@puffer clientbucket]# puppet agent -t --noop Warning: Unable ...

Pufferfish
Apr 29, 2016 at 11:40 am
Apr 29, 2016 at 11:40 am

0	[Puppet Users] puppetdb database size

Hello, I'm running puppetdb (2.3.8 for compatibility with puppet 3.8) for a time. I have observed that although I don't significantly increase the number of servers, the size used by its database is ...

Angel L. Mateo
Apr 29, 2016 at 6:09 am
Apr 29, 2016 at 6:09 am

0	[Puppet Users] puppet mongo ip get

Hi ! I write puppet upgrade program file, In this program file, hava one configure file must write to "database=mongodb://172.16.1.4:27017,172.16.1.5,172.16.1.6:27017" ,this ip adress store mongo ...

Yuanbing Chen
Apr 28, 2016 at 7:55 am
Apr 28, 2016 at 7:55 am

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