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Hi, I had a few questions regarding the PCP (Puppet Professional 2016 Certification) which i have listed below. 1) Is there a associate level and then professional level certification for puppet...
View Articlehow to integrate puppet with back up tools?
I'm working for a company which takes back up. we have our own back up tool. first thing is we are looking to integrate our back up tool with puppet. second thing is we also have a software which...
View Articlepuppet integration with other softwares
how can I make puppet to create a virtual machine on ESX from the back up images which were created by the backup tool?
View ArticlePatch management by foreman in Linux
Hi Team, I have been searching on how to do patchmanagement of linux servers using foreman and puppet. I have been trying to find the doc for quiet some time but I could not find any particular...
View Articlerspec-puppet - how to check array contents of ressources
Hi there, is there a way to use the contain_* matchers on ressource parameters? I have a define, which accepts an array which is passed to augeas define mymodule::mydef (array $raw_changes) { .......
View ArticlePuppet : set a variable only at runtime
Hi all, I'm currently facing an interesting challenge : - I use puppet to setup a middleware - in order to be able to use this middleware once it's installed, I need to query it in order to get a (...
View Articlepuppet apply
G'day, newbie question, why is it stated in puppet training material that it's advised to use the example directory to declare the classes and run puppet apply against the files in the examples dir...
View ArticleIs there a way to restart nodes using the GUI?
Restarted ssh and sshd service using GUI but I need to restart the puppet master and I can't SSH in due the reason below: Last night I closed out of linuxacademy with my servers because I kept getting...
View ArticlePuppet selboolean module
I have the following puppet module: selboolean { 'scan system': name => 'scan system', persistent => true, provider => 'antivirus_can_scan_system', value => on, } When I deploy the module,...
View ArticleCan puppet help deploy a common WAR file across multiple Windows servers?
I have several VM instances with Windows OS running Tomcat. Is it possible to deploy a common WAR file to all those servers through puppet script? Thank you.
View ArticlePuppet 2016.5.2 installation failed on centos7 - [pe-console-services]:...
Hi everyone, I'm new to puppet environment, and I'm preparing to get puppet certified with online documentation and available support. Coming to the point, I created a virtual machine on Microsoft...
View Articlecustom variable declaration
Hi Team, How can we pass a custom variable value from the Puppet server to the client machines and that variable needs to be used in a script and return the results to Puppet Server. Please advise....
View Articleyum cannot find pe-client-tools package
I tried to follow https://docs.puppet.com/pe/2016.5/install_pe_client_tools.html#pe-managed-workstation-installation instructions for Installing the PE client tools package. I used...
View ArticleMake cron resource attribute minute as variable to run as separate interval...
if environ == 'prod' { $min == '[5,10,15,20,25]' else $min == '[10,40] } cron { 'update_yp': command => '/usr/local/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1', hour => '*', minute => $min, require...
View ArticleHi, Using puppet 3.8 open source on red hat 6 linux in tcs. We are facing one...
Hi, Using puppet 3.8 open source on red hat 6 linux in tcs. We are facing one issue. "client.rb:251:in `start_receiver' Could not receive all responses. Expected : 2. Received : 0" Is there any...
View ArticlePeer's Certificate issuer is not recognized"
Getting the above error while trying to install the puppet agent on the RHEL 7
View Articleregsubst - replace backslashes for fowardslashes
Hey, I'm trying to change some string by replacing the \ (back-slash) for / (forward-slash). The code: define sslcertificate ( $password, $location, $thumbprint, $root_store = 'LocalMachine',...
View Articlefirewalld: notify service not reloading service
Hi, I wrote my own provider and type for firewalld that will simply add or remove ports or services from the public zone. The add/removes are working, but the service resource is not getting notified...
View ArticleUnparsed line in puppetdb.conf
I can try to install puppetdb behind puppet-server, but while ruby parsing puppetdb.conf throw on error. I'm using puppet-server 4.9 and puppetdb is 4.3. Here the warning: Warning: Error 500 on SERVER:...
View ArticlePuppet : system commands' trace
Hell all puppeteers ! I recently had to do some tricky troubleshooting regarding some puppet resources which were failing. While I ultimately found the culprit and fixed the issue, it got me thinking...
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