I believe you are missing a basic concept: Hiera is for the puppet MASTER, not the agent/client.
>From http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/installing.html#installing-hiera Installing Hiera If you are using Hiera with Puppet, you should install it on your puppet master server(s); it is optional and unnecessary on agent nodes. (If you are using a standalone puppet apply site, every node should have Hiera.) Also, hiera and facter are two distinctly different beasties. You can use facter-facts in your heirarchy definitions to organize your data, but info from hiera is different from info from facter. Facter operates at the agent/client level while hiera is at the puppet-master level. HTH “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric" <cam...@gmail.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:34:20 PM Subject: [Puppet Users] hiera can't see a value on a puppet client, but the hiera app on the server can When I run puppet on a client it says it can't find a parameter in hiera, but If I run the hiera application on my puppet master and give it the same facts that my client has, it finds them just fine. Why is that? Here's how my client sees itself: [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep region region => northamerica [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep datacenter datacenter => sjc [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep environment environment => qa [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep machinetype machinetype => tag [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# facter --puppet | grep hostname hostname => tag5-4-qa-sjc I run puppet and get this error: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item ak_auth_primary in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp:11 on node tag5-4-qa-sjc.domain.net on my puppet master server: $ hiera ak_auth_primary region=northamerica datacenter=sjc environment=qa Answer: ops1-1-qa-sjc $ hiera ak_auth_primary region=northamerica datacenter=sjc environment=qa machinetype=tag hostname=tag5-4-qa-sjc Answer: ops1-1-qa-sjc Is it because I'm using an older version of Puppet with Hiera? I'm not quite ready to upgrade to version 3 yet, but I plan to. [root@tag5-4-qa-sjc ~]# rpm -qa | grep puppet puppet-2.7.14-1.el6.noarch user@puppet-server$ sudo rpm -qa | egrep '(puppet|hiera)' puppet-2.7.12-1.el6.noarch puppet-dashboard-1.2.6-1.el6.noarch hiera-1.2.1-1.el5.noarch puppet-server-2.7.12-1.el6.noarch hiera-puppet-1.0.0-1.el5.noarch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
