hi Rob, maybe it helps: I found something in the Puppet server logs, while calling the agent on the node:
[...] 2016-12-21 20:59:16,496 INFO [puppet-server] Puppet Caching node for mon. example.com 2016-12-21 20:59:17,236 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::role'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,236 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::profile'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,238 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::datacenter'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,239 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::role'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,240 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::profile'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,241 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::datacenter'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,243 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::role'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,243 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::profile'; 2016-12-21 20:59:17,245 WARN [puppet-server] Scope(Class[main]) Could not look up qualified variable '::datacenter'; 2016-12-21 20:59:18,406 ERROR [puppet-server] Puppet Must pass backupuser to Class[Mysql::Server::Backup] at /opt/puppet/environments/test/modules/ profile/manifests/mysql/server.pp:12 on node mon.example.com /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/errors.rb:106:in `fail' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/resource.rb:482:in `validate_complete' org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1342:in `each' [...] cu denny -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1140e0f8-ee1a-4fe8-b3b8-3b33dbe1f954%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.