On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:59 PM, John T. Guthrie <jguth...@book.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running puppet 2.7.1 with mongrel and an apache proxy. I have been > seeing an issue where it appears that the puppetmaster is completely > ignoring any facts that are sent to it. > > When a client connects, any configuration that relies on facts shows > those variables as being empty strings. (I have been testing this with > a simple notify resource that prints out the IP address and the FQDN. > Both of these are coming up as empty strings.) If I check the list of > facts for a node through the REST API, it comes up as an empty list. > Moreover, /var/lib/puppet/facts is persistently empty. This has been > happening with every client that I have checked.
Can you show your puppet manifests? Are you using $::ipaddress $::fqdn? > If run a packet capture on the puppetmaster paying attention to the > puppetmaster ports, then I definitely see the puppetmaster receive the > facts in b64_zlib_yaml format. I can even decode the facts string and > get the correct set of facts. So the puppetmaster is definitely > receiving the facts. However, in the same packet capture, I see the > puppetmaster return json for resources as if it had not received any > facts at all. > > I have even gone so far as to blow away my entire /var/lib/puppet > directory (except for the ssl), and try starting fresh to no avail. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can fix this? I am attaching > my puppet.conf in case that will help. Thanks in advance for any advice > that anyone has. Use this tip and see what puppet facts you are getting back on master: http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/see-all-client-variables.html The facts you get from the client should also reside in $vardir/yaml/facts, and you can examine them to see what you have. Thanks, Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
