[Puppet Users] Re: starting hiera + ntp module
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 4:11:46 PM UTC+1, TimV wrote: Inside hieradata, I have a simple common.yaml file, and in that file I have: --- testmsg : 'Tim was here' ntp::restrict : false, ntp::autoupdate : true, ntp::enable : false, ntp::servers : [ ntp.example.org iburst, 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst, 1.us.pool.ntp.org iburst, 2.us.pool.ntp.org iburst ] One this noticed about your ntp::servers here: I don't know if you can do that way but normally I define an array in hiera like this: ntp::servers: - ntp.example.org iburst - 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst - 1.us.pool.ntp.org iburst - 2.us.pool.ntp.org iburst In that case, the error message: Error 400 on SERVER: false, is not an Array - seems right. Best! -- 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/1898c642-2820-4e57-acc9-37a5be285584%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Puppet Users] Windows exe fork
Hi, Just wrote my first puppet module for Windows provisioning. All is working well except I am having a problem running a windows exe file in that Puppet appears to wait for the exe to complete. At least this is the case when I run Puppet agent --test from the Windows Server command line. What I want to do here is install a set of files for a Riemann monitoring client on several Windows Server 2008 R1 VMs. These files include an exe, which I want to start and run in perpetuity. I don't want Puppet to wait for this process to complete. It appears I could run the exe in a separate shell using cmd.exe, but when I try that on the command line I do not see the named process running in the Resource Monitor. I only see cmd.exe running. This is not very informative. My question is, what is the best way to run this executable via Puppet? Should I convert the exe to a Windows service, install that and run it as a service? Should I use shell cmd and live with the unhelpful Resource Monitor listing? Or should I use Power Shell to fork the process like I would in linux? Any help would be most appreciated. -- 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/c5d75b7c-531d-40d2-a027-f118910206af%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Puppet Users] future parser changes undef to string inside create_resources (tested on puppet 3.5.1 and puppet 3.6.1)
I've stumbled upon this very annoying bug with the future parser where it's
replacing undef with empty strings when passed inside a hash to
create_resources().
test.pp
=
define test($var = undef) {
notice inline_template(%= @name % is % if @var %true% else
%false% end % and of type %= @var.class %)
}
$config = {
from_create_resources = {
var = undef
}
}
create_resources('test', $config)
=
$ puppet apply ./test.pp
Notice: Scope(Test[from_create_resources]): from_create_resources is false
and of type NilClass
$ puppet apply --parser future ./test.pp
Notice: Scope(Test[from_create_resources]): from_create_resources is true
and of type String
Breaks most of my templates since I use % if @var % everywhere...
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Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.6.1 Virtual Packages, and unrelated facts questions...
On 5/23/14, 4:31 AM, Paul Seymour wrote:
Hello,
Just updated the test environment to 3.6.1 and I know the changes have
been made for virtual packages. But now each agent output displays this:-
Warning: The package type's allow_virtual parameter will be changing its
default value from false to true in a future release. If you do not want
to allow virtual packages, please explicitly set allow_virtual to false.
(at /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/type.rb:816:in `set_default')
I know we can set a top level default but does that really have to come
out constantly ?
Now this may be related to 3.6.x but I cannot say for sure. A couple of
facts we use are now throwing some errors.
First is:-
Could not retrieve fact='concat_basedir', resolution='anonymous':
uninitialized constant Puppet
Which comes from:-
Facter.add(concat_basedir) do
setcode do
File.join(Puppet[:vardir],concat)
end
end
The second is:-
Error converting value for param 'config': Could not find value for $confdir
Which comes from this extract:-
if Puppet.version.to_i = 3
Puppet.settings.initialize_global_settings(Puppet[:config])
unless Puppet.settings.global_defaults_initialized?
else
Puppet.parse_config
end
If I set it with:-
Puppet.settings.initialize_global_settings([--config=/etc/puppet/puppet.conf])
Then it works fine.
So it seems they may be related in facter not reading from the
puppet.conf file correctly ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
Hi,
Don't mean to move the thread away from the logging issue, just wanted
to post a potential fix for others who want this solved, especially if
all of your nodes are not upgraded at the same time. To do so, I added
the following to my site.pp
if versioncmp($::puppetversion,'3.6.1') = 0 {
$allow_virtual_packages = hiera('allow_virtual_packages',false)
Package {
allow_virtual = $allow_virtual_packages,
}
}
Best regards,
-g
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Re: [Puppet Users] params.pp/inheritance/defaults/hiera/hiera functions?
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Robin Bowes robin.bo...@yo61.com wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 07:12 -0700, Daniele Sluijters wrote: - Don't use automatic hiera lookups. This removes the magic and makes it more clear to everyone that the data is coming from hiera. Hold on a sec; if you mean data bindings with 'automatic hiera lookups', most certainly use them. Do not ever hardcode hiera() functions in parameter lookups in your module as you module can now _only_ work with Hiera and not everyone uses or wants to use hiera. Instead let data bindings take care of it so that everyone can benefit from your code, Hiera, ENC or by explicitly passing data in. I think the most important thing is to not hardcode hiera() functions in modules. That gives the flexibility for the users of the modules to either rely on automatic parameter lookup (APL) or explicitly pass in the parameters. My own preference is to use explicit hiera lookups in profiles and pass in the data to modules. APL is just a bit too magic, in my experience, and avoiding it makes it easier to work out where data comes from. R. Yes, this is what I mean. Don't use or access hiera from with *component* modules. You do need to use it from profile modules. This assumes that one is using the profile/roles pattern, which seems to be the current best practice anyway. ❧ Brian Mathis @orev -- 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/CALKwpEx1S4Cx2OA9SKRWH94LxQ3Ash-AYwJXMgrdj5dwPYYKDg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [Puppet Users] puppetdb '[replace catalog]' postgresql errors with index 'catalog_resources_pkey'
It would be very hard to create a large resource type, but not
impossible. Whats more likely is that the title of one of your
resources is excessively large. This is possible most likely with an
exec {} or something similar that uses a very large command as the
title of the exec, instead of putting it in the command parameter like
so:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec-attribute-command.
Either that, or something very similar.
Thank you for the quick, thorough, and incredibly helpful reply. You pointed
me in the right direction. Turns out we had an older module that was doing
just what you suspected. There were two titles of over 370 characters
apiece. Here is the original module:
https://github.com/puppet-modules/puppet-common/blob/master/manifests/defines/line.pp
Command used to troubleshoot:
cat /var/lib/puppet/client_data/catalog/puppetca.fqdn.json | python
-mjson.tool | grep title
I resolved this issue by changing all execs to named execs, differentiated
by the '${file}' variable passed into the script to avoid duplicate
declarations. For example, exec { name: d_line_ensure_present_${file}:
command = ... }
Checking the logs, I no longer see the errors.
BTW this might be considered a bug, and might call for better
normalisation in our schema to avoid this. Having said that, a type
and title combination this excessive is very abnormal, so it might be
something we want to stop from happening in Puppet anyway :-). So
weither this is a bug for puppet or puppetdb we'll have to determine.
Let me know if you need any more information from my end on this.
This looks like you haven't upgraded puppetdb-terminus to the latest
version (2.0.0) on your puppet master. We've bumped the command
version to 4 now, this looks like its just the old code. Also people
often forget to restart the Apache process when upgrading the terminus
code, don't forget to do that.
puppetdb-terminus was updated along with puppetdb, but httpd had not been
restarted.
Thanks again, Ken!
No problem :-).
Can you raise a bug on the original exec {} issue for me?
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PDB
ken.
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[Puppet Users] How do I run a shell script from puppet?
apt-get update is work-
exec { apt-update:
command = /usr/bin/apt-get update
}
Exec[apt-update] - Package | |
But now I want to run a complicated script (/etc/puppet/script/works.sh)
what do I write the site.pp that I run the script in the client
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Re: [Puppet Users] Windows exe fork
I’m not familiar with how the Reimann monitoring client runs – but if you run it at the command line and it runs within the shell and requires the command shell to run perpetually, you could try “start.exe reimannclient.exe” or whatever the name of the exe is. There are a # of command line switches that you can look at in the help by typing start /? at the command line. This would be a kludgey way to do it though to be honest. You won’t have a very good way to control it. Alternatively, it’s usually better to run these types of things within the service control manager as a service if they are supported which will give you more control over starting, stopping, and ensuring it starts up when the servers reboot, etc. Hopefully your tool is able to run natively as a service. if not, you can try to set up a service wrapper to run it as a service (Unfortunately you can’t just convert any exe natively into a Windows service). SrvAny (the wrapper) and InstSrv (sets up the SrvAny wrapper in the registry/service control manager) were tools available in the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit. I’ve recently read that those 2003 tools still work in 2008, but keep in mind that they are not supported and your mileage may vary. If your client is available as something that can run as a service that would be much better. You could use puppet to ensure the components are installed properly and that the service is set to run all the time. From: Bill N Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:27 PM To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [Puppet Users] Windows exe fork Hi, Just wrote my first puppet module for Windows provisioning. All is working well except I am having a problem running a windows exe file in that Puppet appears to wait for the exe to complete. At least this is the case when I run Puppet agent --test from the Windows Server command line. What I want to do here is install a set of files for a Riemann monitoring client on several Windows Server 2008 R1 VMs. These files include an exe, which I want to start and run in perpetuity. I don't want Puppet to wait for this process to complete. It appears I could run the exe in a separate shell using cmd.exe, but when I try that on the command line I do not see the named process running in the Resource Monitor. I only see cmd.exe running. This is not very informative. My question is, what is the best way to run this executable via Puppet? Should I convert the exe to a Windows service, install that and run it as a service? Should I use shell cmd and live with the unhelpful Resource Monitor listing? Or should I use Power Shell to fork the process like I would in linux? Any help would be most appreciated. -- 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/c5d75b7c-531d-40d2-a027-f118910206af%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/1CEBC94EFF3A420684F90A61C5C65420%40JimHPPavilionG6. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[Puppet Users] connect jboss to mysql
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