How do you change the runinterval
So I was reading that you can change the 30 minutes polling for reports by putting the runinterval in the puppet.config file, but when I did that, it doesn't seem to work. I also restarted the...
View ArticleHow to configure different canonical name for master?
Given problem: puppet master (3.8) runs on a machine with a host name of e.g. AAA. This hostname AAA is not resolvable for the clients. Therefore, the puppet master was given a new name, e.g. BBB with...
View Articlepuppetboard error
Hello All, Trying to install puppetdb and puppetboard and running into an issue, I've searched the web as well as this forum to see if anyone has come across this and it seems like no one has. So I'm...
View ArticleCode Manager setup - missing 'puppet-code' binary
hi all, Im setting up Code Manager to manage my modules from a dev box via GitHub repo. my dev box is same OS as my puppet master, centos7, and I have PE agent on it. Im following the docs, and trying...
View ArticleEvaluation Error while using the Hiera hash
Hi, I have the following values in my hiera yaml file: test::config_php::php_modules : -'soap' -'mcrypt' -'pdo' -'mbstring' -'php-process' -'pecl-memcache' -'devel' -'php-gd' -'pear' -'mysql' -'xml'...
View Articlepuppetlabs/mongodb not passing replica set config
I'm trying to setup a MongoDB replica set using the puppetlabs/mongodb module. My manifests pretty much match the example on the modules page: class mongodb::server { replset => 'configserver',...
View ArticleRunning Puppet Server in AWS for device configuration over internet
Hi All, Sorry if this is a common question or has been answered before but I haven't come across an answer for this. I am working for a company that has a number of Windows and OSX users in offices...
View Articlepluginsyncdest vs. windows expected external facts location
I am curious why the default `pluginsyncdest` directory, for windows is:> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/configuration.html#pluginfactdest pluginfactdest Where Puppet should store...
View ArticleError 400 could not find class - Class not shown in console
Using Puppet Enterprise version 4.3.1 I am having a weird issue where the console can''t find one of my classes. I'm using r10k to pull the module from git and install it in the correct path with this...
View ArticlePuppetlabs MySQL - Resource not found
I have two classes in a serverless Ubuntu 14.04 setup. Puppet is version 3.8.7, puppetlabs-mysql is version 3.7.0: class example::mysql { include stdlib include mysql $mysqld_override_options = {...
View Articlenginx vhost not configuring properly
nginx::resource::vhost { 'service-set1-abc': server_name => ['start.sky.shoretel.com'], ssl => true, listen_port => '443', ssl_cert => '/etc/nginx/shoretel_rproxy_crt.crt', ssl_key =>...
View ArticleIssue installing modules from local cache
I have Learning VM up and running. I started with the power of puppet quests. For the search of modules I don't have internet enabled on my VM. I opted for installing the modules from local cache but...
View ArticleActiveMQ does not start on ubuntu 14.04
**Hi , I'm in process of installing Mcollective and ActiveMQ and i couldn't start ActiveMQ service I could see that the problem is "activemq.xml" file is not found. But it is located in...
View ArticleInstalling Mcollective and ActiveMQ
Hi , Is there a simple way to install Mcollective on puppet open source? I have followed (as it looks to be simple and easy ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGQMj8zv65A but it did not install after...
View ArticleOverriding module parameter with hiera won't work on node level
I'm on Puppet 3.7.2 and Hiera 1.3.4 I'm using a basic ENC (hiera-enc) to create this hierarchy: :hierarchy: - "nodes/%{clientcert}" - "roles/%{role}" - "environments/%{environment}" - default I have no...
View ArticleSet Linux capabilities per file
I would like to affect a file's capabilities using Puppet. Linux has a built-in interface to [permit particular capabilities](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html) such as allowing...
View ArticleIncluding a common apache::vhost on all servers via Hiera/YAML
I have about 300 apache servers that all need a common virtual host setup for our monitoring and load balancing application. Currently, I use a wrapper class to extract the vhost information from hiera...
View ArticleFunction 'fail' does not return a value in rspec-puppet
Hi, I have below manifests class module_name::params { $filetype = $::operatingsystemmajrelease ? { '5' => 'ext3', '6' => 'ext4', '7' => 'xfs', default => fail("OS release...
View ArticlePuppet open source with Mcollective
Hi, Can i have Mcollective and ActiveMQ installed on Puppet master server ? Thanks.
View ArticleIs PuppetDB dependant on using default certnames?
I have a puppetmaster and a seperate puppetDB server. My pupetDB server also acts as my puppetDB's postgresql server. By the way all my servers are actually AWS EC2 instances. I used the main puppetdb...
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