Agent stops working from time to time, requires restart. Error: Failed to...
We have a Puppet environment with a few hundred machines. Recently we started seeing agents that stopped working, which results in monitoring alerts. The agents spit out the error message: Failed to...
View Articlenotify difference between master and client
Hi Folks, I am very new to puppet. Please apologize me if this question doest make sense or if its very basic. I have a client and master. Whenever someone changes a file/anything manually on client...
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Using puppetlabs-azure module
View ArticleError on new node with non-production environment
Hi I installed Puppet on a Windows machine with the environment automatically set to a custom environment (development). Since Puppet 4 (PE 2016.1) this is causing problems – I'm getting errors about...
View ArticleI am learning puppet. when I create a manifest without class, it runs...
i tried to create a file hello.txt. if I have the following contents in the init.pp and run, i get my desired result i.e a file named hello.txt with the contents. file { 'D:/puppet/hello.txt': ensure...
View Articleproblem with bakuppc using puppet foreman
I have backuppc which is being handled by puppet and I am also using foreman. Below is my `init.pp` file :class backuppc::service { if $::operatingsystemcodename == 'squeeze' { service { 'backuppc' :...
View Articlerspec-puppet tests for roles/profiles
I want to make some tests that will help prevent issues with deploying our roles and profiles.. Does anyone have a good example of writing rspec-puppet tests for roles and profiles to ensure that you...
View Articlerspec-puppet test case calling default value against passing right facts
Below is my param manifests class module_name::params { $fstype = $::operatingsystemmajrelease ? { '5' => 'ext3', '6' => 'ext4', '7' => 'xfs', default => fail(" ${::operatingsystemrelease}...
View Articlehow to change verify_server_cert value in hiera for ldap module for apache
I'm trying to figure out how to change the verify_server_cert value in hiera and i cannot figure it out. i'm trying to set LDAPTrustedGlobalCert to off in my config. verify_server_cert seems to be the...
View ArticleWhat is the difference/relationship between configuration management and IT...
What is the difference/relationship between configuration management and IT infrastructure automation
View ArticleError: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server
Hi, I want to install Openstack using puppet but I'm facing the error below [root@compute ~]# puppet agent -t Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info:...
View ArticlePuppetlabs_Postgres Module: validate_postgresql_connection.sh fails
Greetings everyone, System info: **OS:** CentOS 6.7 **Puppet Version:** 4.5.0 **Postgres Version:** 9.4 **Puppetlabs-Postgres Module Version:** v4.7.1 **Module Config:** Listed Below **Configration...
View ArticleHelp! Get error while installing Puppet Master:...
Help! Get error while installing Puppet Master: /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/bundle: No such file or directory on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago) with...
View ArticleCreate the puppet scripts for RASP
RASP url to download agents: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/appdefender-application-self-protection/ We need to build puppet scripts for installation of this HP Application...
View ArticleGot error with Installing your deployment: su: incorrect password
I tried installing Puppet Master with puppet-enterprise-2016.1.2-el-6-x86_64 on Linux host Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago), kept getting the following error on different hosts,...
View Articlevalidate_absolute_path gives me error.
I was given a working manifest that had validate_absolute_path($install_dir) when I try to run the manifest, it gives me the following error: Error: Evaluation Error: Unknown function:...
View Articlehiera doesn't work
Hi all! I have puppetmaster 4 + puppetdb 4.1 and i try to use hiera... In puppet master: puppet nodes # cat /etc/puppetlabs/code/hiera.yaml --- :backends: - yaml :yaml: :datadir:...
View Articleconfiguring passenger from hiera with puppetlabs-apache module
I'm looking to setup a Passenger app using the puppetlabs-module, configuring via hiera. If I use the following vhost definition it works fine: web::vhosts: node.com: docroot: /var/www/app...
View ArticleWill my 3.x Puppet master work with Passenger 5.x?
I noticed Passenger 5.0.5 has been released this week. Will it work it with Puppet?
View ArticleHow should I tune Passenger to run Puppet?
The [default Passenger/vhost config](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/ext/rack/example-passenger-vhost.conf) example provided by Puppet doesn't work with Passenger 4 unless modified....
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