[Puppet Users] Re: Considerations for puppet/cluster to manage 6000 hosts.

2011-01-17 Thread Matt
Not sure what his issue was but in my organization we had one puppet master with mod_passenger and puppet 2.6.3 running fine with 200 clients in a VM. We expanded to a 2 node cluster, with the original puppet master serving as the master for the secondaries. The secondaries have an F5 infront of th

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple packages installation in one yum call

2011-01-17 Thread Matt
Unfortunately thats a limitation of RPM which has been worked around with YUM. YUM will do the resolution of dependencies if they are also in one of the repositories configured on the system. On Jan 13, 4:09 pm, donavan wrote: > On Jan 12, 1:45 pm, Stephane wrote: > > > You could do something li

[Puppet Users] Re: Autosign Certificate upon rebuild

2011-01-17 Thread Matt
one thing to keep in mind is if the server is the same name previously there will be an issue where you will need to use the puppetca on the master to clean out the old cert. On Jan 14, 3:36 pm, Ohad Levy wrote: > One way would be to enable autosign when you request your kickstart... if > you ks

[Puppet Users] backtick in exec

2010-12-06 Thread Matt Keating
How do you do a backtick inside an exec? eg: exec { "Testworld": command => "/bin/echo hello `cat /etc/hostname` > /tmp/hello.txt", } Thanks, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post

Re: [Puppet Users] Propagating local config changes from a client to the puppetmaster

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Wallace
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2010 12:58:33 gdb wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using puppet with a centralized puppetmaster pushing config to > many client nodes. Most of the configuration files that puppet > manages are static and served via the puppet fileserver (running on > the puppetmaster). I often find myself

Re: [Puppet Users] Process to upgrade from 0.24.8 to 2.6.x ?

2010-11-10 Thread Matt Wallace
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010 10:30:02 nemo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really kind of newbie in the Puppet's world but this tool is quite > impressive. So I wish to thank the authors first and all people > participating to this amazing project. > > Now get straight to business :) I'm responsible of a pla

Re: [Puppet Users] Query facter 'facts' from webapp

2010-11-09 Thread Matt Wallace
e only other solution I can think of is a cronjob that runs on each host on a regular basis and posts/puts to an API to fill the relevant field in the database. Kind regards, Matt [0] https://github.com/proffalken/edison [1] https://github.com/proffalken/randomscripts/tree/master/puppet/ -- Y

[Puppet Users] file_exists function

2010-11-08 Thread Matt
Going to post this again as I posted by accident in another thread.. I am still new to the ruby language and I figured I'd share my file_exists function to see if it is the correct approach and to offer it out there for people who may have the same issue. We build our vhosts based off a template a

[Puppet Users] Re: file_exists function

2010-11-08 Thread Matt
Oops I guess that'll teach me for trying to use a shortcut for posting. On Nov 8, 11:57 am, "Matthew Black" wrote: > I am still new to the ruby language and I figured I'd share my file_exists > function to see if it is the correct approach and to offer it out there for > people who may have the s

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about "refreshonly"

2010-11-08 Thread Matt
Refreshonly will execute when it is either notified or the subscribe resource changes. If there is none of those definition then that Exec will never execute. On Nov 8, 9:49 am, Sean Carolan wrote: > I have inherited some puppet configurations; there is an exec resource > that looks like this: >

Re: [Puppet Users] Prevent users from creating new accounts

2010-11-04 Thread Matt Wallace
On Thursday 04 Nov 2010 10:40:02 Martin Alfke wrote: > On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:28 AM, hywl51 wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > I want to control the user accounts on our company servers with > > puppet. The complete requirements are the following: > > > > 1. Assuming that one user run " useradd " on th

Re: [Puppet Users] Help with LDAP, Users, and Puppet..

2010-11-03 Thread Matt Wise
systems — but we see at least 50% of Puppet runs fail if they try to check/set ownership of a file to an ldap user. These failures go away completely when we do UID/GID only. (which is our work-around for now) —Matt On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote: > On Tuesday 02 Nov 2

Re: [Puppet Users] Help with LDAP, Users, and Puppet..

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Wise
:10:23PM -0700, Matt Wise wrote: >> >> On the systems we use 'files db ldap' as our nsswitch.conf priority, >> and 'db' is a local copy of the ldap data using 'nsscache' on a >> regular basis. Looking up a user should never fail and it doesn

[Puppet Users] Help with LDAP, Users, and Puppet..

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Wise
nt seem to when we log in and check by hand, so I don't know why puppet is failing. —Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this g

[Puppet Users] Puppet Development Lifecycle Documentation - How to contribute to Puppet

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Robinson
s and documentation, the plan is to move it from the wiki to a more permanent home at: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/development_lifecycle.html. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send ema

Re: [Puppet Users] Pulling in a Hash from an external data source?

2010-10-22 Thread Matt Wise
g each run, and dumping it out in a hash format of some kind is the best thing for our use-case. —Matt On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Dennis Hoppe wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Am 22.10.2010 02:41, schrieb Richard Crowley: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Matt Wise wrote: >>&

[Puppet Users] Puppet Training in the UK

2010-10-22 Thread Matt Wallace
Hi all, I've asked my company to send me on the training in London at the end of November, however owing to budget restraints I've been asked to investigate training next year instead. Does anyone know when the next round of training will be in the UK after November? Thanks, Mat

[Puppet Users] Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?

2010-10-22 Thread Matt Wallace
e any plans to!) release bindings for other languages to enable facts to be used in scripts other than puppet. Kind regards, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googl

[Puppet Users] Pulling in a Hash from an external data source?

2010-10-21 Thread Matt Wise
I have a scenario where I'd like to pull in a hash table from an external file (really, a generate() function.. but for testing purposes, a file will do)... is there any way to do that? —Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Us

Re: [Puppet Users] show dependency tree?

2010-10-21 Thread Matt Wise
I'd really like to see puppet-dashboard do this dynamically show you these graphs by pointing puppet dashboard to a local copy of your puppet configs... Thoughts? On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mohit Chawla wrote: > You can do that by enabling graphs to be generated, in puppet.conf or as an > a

[Puppet Users] Pulling in a Hash from an external data source?

2010-10-21 Thread Matt Wise
I have a scenario where I'd like to pull in a hash table from an external file (really, a generate() function.. but for testing purposes, a file will do)... is there any way to do that? —Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Us

Re: [Puppet Users] Automating infrastructure tests on Puppet nodes after a puppetrun

2010-10-20 Thread Matt Wallace
e write!) that when we merge from staging into master the changes that are rolled out will work correctly. I've not gone down the cucumber-puppet root as I'm not 100% sure how it works and how to write stories correctly so if anyone can point me at a good resource on this, I'd be

Re: [Puppet Users] First boot with Puppet

2010-10-15 Thread Matt Wallace
s the very core system and the rest is brought > in and configured by puppet. > > > We're moving to cobbler, > > Looks like cobbler is the prefered method here. I'll give it a try. > > Thanks for all the responses! You can also use Cobbler for ext-lookups and th

Re: [Puppet Users] manipulating facter variable

2010-10-14 Thread Matt Wallace
27;s a lot easier than trying to split out IP Addresses etc and because KSMETA isn't hard-coded on build, it means that we can update these values when a server is moved etc. Hope this is of some help, I know it's not exactly what you're trying to do but it may be a worthwhile alterna

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Duplicating web servers

2010-10-01 Thread Matt Wallace
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 15:01:25 Kikanny wrote: > Thank you all for taking your time to explain it to me. I guess I'll > give it a whirl and see how it goes. Another question I have is what > if the person managing a web server does not have full knowledge of > whatever is installed in a server or th

Re: [Puppet Users] Duplicating web servers

2010-10-01 Thread Matt Wallace
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 14:27:38 Daniel Pittman wrote: > On the plus side: it will make the *next* web server, after this one, > really easy. Like, five minutes of work easy. I have to agree with this. It's taken me the better part of two months (on and off) to get a mailserver manifest to mirror

Re: [Puppet Users] Classes and Inheritence

2010-09-29 Thread Matt Wallace
p::external you want the subclass. We have found > this to be a sensible convention. Thanks both, That now works fine. Kind regards. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-u

[Puppet Users] Classes and Inheritence

2010-09-28 Thread Matt Wallace
The issue I have is that when I include the smtp::smtpexternal class on a node, it errors with the following: err: Could not run Puppet configuration client: Could not find dependent Service[exim] for File[external-exim.conf] at /usr/share/puppet/modules/smtp/manifests/init.pp How do I get s

Re: [Puppet Users] YUMREPO { productname => PowerEdge 2650}

2010-09-28 Thread Matt Wallace
On Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 15:12:34 CraftyTech wrote: > Hello All, > > How do I specify a variable that has a space in it? I'm trying > to setup a yum repo that has two different baseurl's based on the > product name ($productname). Default goes one way, but if the product > is "PowerEdge 2650"

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet and git

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Wallace
On Friday 10 Sep 2010 11:29:31 Julian Simpson wrote: > On 10 September 2010 11:16, Matt Wallace wrote: > > 1) I'm not sure how to get Hudson to merge the "staging" branch into > > "master" > > when the tests complete > > I've not used

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet and git

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Wallace
On Friday 10 Sep 2010 11:33:31 Patrick wrote: > On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Matt Wallace wrote: > > 2) I'm struggling to find a way for puppet 0.25 to perform a "git pull" > > on all the master branches _before_ it runs to ensure that the latest > > configs are

[Puppet Users] puppet and git

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Wallace
may not be many who can help with (1), however I'm fairly sure I'm not alone in using Git for my manifests and I'm wondering how others get their puppetmaster to always run the latest manifest versions from a git repo. Thanks in advance, Matt -- You received this message because

Re: [Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Robinson
Hi Oliver, Dan Bode emailed me to let me know that he has already looked into this a bit and that he will be on site to work with you this next week. I'll look further into these tests if he doesn't have the time to see this through. Matt On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Matt Robin

Re: [Puppet Users] Creating tests for the yum package provider

2010-09-03 Thread Matt Robinson
ake a look and see where you're running into problems. Hopefully I'll have some help for you by the end of Monday. (note: this is a duplicate of the email I sent to puppet-dev, which is definitely more frequently read by developers who can help out with this kind of stuff) Matt On Mon, Aug

[Puppet Users] Using "service" with a specific user

2010-08-30 Thread Matt
Hi ! I would like to use the type "service" to ensure that a service is currently started. Is there a way to specify a user that must run start or stop command ? In the same way that "exec". Regards, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Centralised Graphing?

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Wallace
On Wednesday 25 Aug 2010 19:17:18 Phips wrote: > puppet-dashboard? Could do, but we use Cobbler as our extnode source and I don't really want to fire up an additional management web interface just for a few graphs... :( Cheers, Matt -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: [Puppet Users] Centralised Graphing?

2010-08-26 Thread Matt Wallace
On Wednesday 25 Aug 2010 19:29:52 Luke Kanies wrote: > On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Matt Wallace wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm starting to look at the graphing features of Puppet and I'm > > struggling to find a way of collating the graphs for testing

[Puppet Users] Centralised Graphing?

2010-08-25 Thread Matt Wallace
Hi all, I'm starting to look at the graphing features of Puppet and I'm struggling to find a way of collating the graphs for testing purposes. Is there a way to centralise the output from the graphs into something like "hostname.relationships.dot" on the puppet master? Th

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet dashboard takes a long time to display

2010-08-17 Thread Matt Robinson
Steven, Thanks for sharing your findings. I've created ticket #4553 to either add some README documentation about this or somehow setup a default for log size. Matt http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4553 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Steven L. Seed wrote: > I found the root cau

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-dashboard Explorer 8

2010-08-12 Thread Matt Robinson
We weren't aware as none of us are using Internet Explorer. We'll have to have someone get a copy to test with at some point. Can you file a ticket? http://projects.puppetlabs.com Thanks, Matt On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:40 AM, ScubaDude wrote: > puppet-dashboard on intern

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet + OpenVZ

2010-08-06 Thread Matt Robinson
uza/puppet-virt Matt On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Yushu Yao wrote: > Hi Matt, > > That look really cool. > Are you planning make something similar for libvirt host node? I think > libvirt and OpenVZ share the same structure. If the libvirt one is done, it > can control Op

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: standalone puppet file source error "Could not evaluate: getaddrinfo: ..."

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Robinson
h the info necessary to reproduce this, which it looks like might all be already in your email. Matt On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:11 AM, bobics wrote: > Matt, thanks for the tip. > > I'm using the lastest facter 1.5.7 gem, I glanced at the code and it > doesn't look like that patch

[Puppet Users] Fun with Custom Providers

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wallace
g as "base" installed first, "storeweb" will install fine. As soon as I try and link the modules together again, it fails. Can anyone help me work this out? Thanks in advance. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Use

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing Pear and Pecl packages in Puppet

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wallace
On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 12:56:45 Trevor Hemsley wrote: > No, it's not a clean solution but if the PECL maintainers are silly > enough to hard code a memory limit in the shell script that is used to > invoke it then there is not a huge amount that you can do about it. > There are lots of hits on goo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: standalone puppet file source error "Could not evaluate: getaddrinfo: ..."

2010-08-02 Thread Matt Robinson
I was seeing similar problems and it had to do with a bug in facter since it wasn't confining a windows fact to windows. Try this patch on your facter: http://github.com/nicklewis/facter/commit/b2c21145885c15abc43b3641fcf903e13a859565 On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:26 PM, bobics wrote: > Why is this

Re: [Puppet Users] Variable Scoping: What do you want?

2010-07-05 Thread Matt
On 5 July 2010 09:15, David Schmitt wrote: > On 7/5/2010 12:04 AM, Matt wrote: >> >> On 2 July 2010 09:50, David Schmitt  wrote: >>> >>> On 6/30/2010 10:57 AM, Matt wrote: >>>> >>>> On 29 June 2010 17:22, Luke Kanies    wrote: >&

Re: [Puppet Users] Variable Scoping: What do you want?

2010-07-04 Thread Matt
On 2 July 2010 09:50, David Schmitt wrote: > On 6/30/2010 10:57 AM, Matt wrote: >> >> On 29 June 2010 17:22, Luke Kanies  wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Given the number of threads on variable scoping recently, it's pretty >>> cl

Re: [Puppet Users] Variable Scoping: What do you want?

2010-06-30 Thread Matt
se variables declared in an inherited node be used in a child node without specify the same classes that are in the inherited node. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to pup

Re: [Puppet Users] Error 400 : could not find template

2010-06-28 Thread Matt Keating
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Pieter Baele wrote: > These are in /etc/puppet/manifests/templates > > |-- classes > |   |-- motd.pp > |   |-- puppet.pp > |-- nodes > |   |-- default.pp > |-- site.pp > `-- templates >    `-- etc >        |-- motd.erb >        |-- puppet >        |   `-- puppet.co

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: How to pass a array to define?

2010-06-21 Thread Matt Keating
Not to hijack your thread, but I'm having a similar issue with trying to pass an array to a define: class solr { $configFileList = ["admin-extra.html", "elevate.xml"] define configFiles ( $solrIndex, $fileName ) { file { "/var/solr/$solrIndex/conf/$fileName" :

[Puppet Users] Re: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Keating
Solved - God I had SELinux sometimes. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Matt Keating wrote: > Update - After the client tries to connect, I found this in the > puppetmaster WEBrick log: > > [2010-06-09 17:52:10] DEBUG accept: 10.1.1.70:49980 > [2010-06-09 17:52:10] ERROR OpenSSL

[Puppet Users] Re: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Keating
cation.rb:306:in `exit_on_fail' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:217:in `run' /usr/sbin/puppetmasterd:66 [2010-06-09 17:52:10] DEBUG close: 10.1.1.70:49980 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Matt Keating wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to se

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Keating
Sorry for the double post. Thought the first didnt send. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@

[Puppet Users] Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed

2010-06-09 Thread Matt
Hi guys, I'm trying to setup my first puppet installation and I'm running into problems. I've got the puppetmaster running on a fresh install of Centos 5.4. The puppet client is also on another Centos 5.4 server. Once I've signed the client certificate on the puppetmaster, the client seems to bre

[Puppet Users] Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: certificate verify failed

2010-06-09 Thread Matt Keating
Hi guys, I'm trying to setup my first puppet installation and I'm running into problems. I've got the puppetmaster running on a fresh install of Centos 5.4. The puppet client is also on another Centos 5.4 server. Once I've signed the client certificate on the puppetmaster, the client seems to bre

[Puppet Users] Re: [foreman-users] New Foreman release - 0.1-5

2010-06-09 Thread Matt
Love the speed increase. A couple of initial thoughts, I should probably raise tickets: 1 - Sort by name as default in Hosts section 2 - bring back the yaml link in the Hosts section for a host Matt On 7 June 2010 09:22, Ohad Levy wrote: > I’m happy to announce a new version of Foreman -

[Puppet Users] Access to fileserver

2010-06-04 Thread Matt Juszczak
dress is listed in the fileserver.conf? Thanks, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet

[Puppet Users] Initial puppet instance configuring a client to look elsewhere?

2010-06-04 Thread Matt Juszczak
the same certificate was on both puppetmaster servers? Or is this asking for trouble? -Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscrib

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing RPM Repositories

2010-06-03 Thread Matt Wallace
ora.redhat.com/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL";, enabled=> "1", includepkgs=> "puppet* ruby* facter augeas-libs ruby-augeas ruby-shadow munin-common munin-node munin-server pyparsing libvirt* libyaml* PyYAML* cobbler* Django* python-netaddr", } Thanks in advance, Mat

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing RPM Repositories

2010-06-03 Thread Matt Wallace
So I only get the minimal repos needed for each node class. At the moment I can include all the repos or none of the repos and I'd like to bemore subtle about it without having to redefine each repo for each class it is used in. If there's a more appropriate/better way of achieving t

[Puppet Users] Managing RPM Repositories

2010-06-02 Thread Matt Wallace
nyone help? Kind regards, Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

Re: [Puppet Users] Same certificate on multiple identical machines ?

2010-05-31 Thread Matt Juszczak
These servers only exist in RAM, so when they shutdown, all data is lost. Julien also said that there's over a hundred of them. If you are manually signing every time they reboot, you probably won't be diligent enough to catch an impostor that can use the PXE server. At that point, you might

Re: [Puppet Users] Same certificate on multiple identical machines ?

2010-05-31 Thread Matt Juszczak
You should just be able to get the certificate signed on one of them and then put the whole /var/lib/puppet directory in the image. Remember that with this method, any computer that can access the PXE server can pretend to be one of those servers to the puppetmaster. It'll also be annoying to

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Package Management - how far do you go?

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Juszczak
time, now or in the future, for one extra beer. On May 28, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote: > I have a "basenode" class which installs most of the packages needed > on a specific server. For the database servers, we ensure mysql is > installed, setup the directory stru

[Puppet Users] Puppet Package Management - how far do you go?

2010-05-28 Thread Matt Juszczak
I have a "basenode" class which installs most of the packages needed on a specific server. For the database servers, we ensure mysql is installed, setup the directory structure, etc. But what about "one off" servers? For instance, I have a tools server, that sort of runs random one-off tools

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetd output standard output of service

2010-05-26 Thread Matt
; > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Matt wrote: > > Did a quick google but couldn't find anything. > > Anybody know if puppetd captures the stdout of services it manages? I've > > been using it to manage a few services that issue warnings when > restarted. >

[Puppet Users] Error with resource in puppet cucumber

2010-05-25 Thread Matt Wallace
)" server should be provisioned$/ do |serverVMType| dom = conn.lookup_domain_by_name(serverVMType) if dom.info.state == 1 steps %Q{ Then package "exim" should be "present" } end end Then /^I should be able to connect to port "([^\"]*)"$/ do

[Puppet Users] Re: Looking for Puppet consultant in Boston, MA area

2010-05-25 Thread Matt Shields
would be great - experience packaging RPM's a plus - experience using Puppet in the Amazon Cloud also a plus -matt On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Matt Shields wrote: > Are there any Puppet consultants in the Boston, MA area? We're looking to > hire someone for a short-ter

[Puppet Users] Problems with apt package installs

2010-05-24 Thread Matt Southerden
trigger the exec (so I have no idea how all these people are getting it to work *shrug*, or maybe they just think it's working...) Any help would be massively appreciated. Thanks, Matt. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users&quo

[Puppet Users] puppetd output standard output of service

2010-05-24 Thread Matt
ogged this output somewhere too. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

[Puppet Users] Ralsh output is not consistent

2010-05-21 Thread Matt Wallace
'wheel'], uid => '0', gid => '0' } The issue I've got is that because "comment" and "ensure" are on different lines on the two servers, I'm having real issues picking up the differences between the servers because diff jus

[Puppet Users] Looking for Puppet consultant in Boston, MA area

2010-05-21 Thread Matt Shields
ussed by contacting me directly. When you contact me, please send me where you're located, your hourly rate and your experience with Puppet. Contact me directly at mshie...@namemedia.com -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users&

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
where [1] is the much newer and better version for that one. cheers pete [1] http://git.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/?p=puppet/module-nagios;a=summary Thanks, this looks great! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, se

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
* Does anyone have experience with puppet in the cloud?   There really is no such thing as "the cloud". It's just the latest buzz phrase used to describe... networked computers. I actually agree with you :) But it's the term used to reference Rackspace and Amazon virtualization platform, so I

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
ase, our LDAP servers are also our puppetmaster servers, so they share responsibilities. Hence why I wanted to keep those boxes un-managed. -Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send em

[Puppet Users] Re: Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
ce Cloud or EC2 automatically - is there bootstrap integration at all? Are you making your own images? How are you dealing with shared LAN access on clouds (are you finding people attempting to brute force your puppetmasterd instance?) Thanks! -Matt -- You received this message because you

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
We only have a handful of people that need shell level access to the servers so we push the users out with Puppet. Removes the LDAP network dependency for us. So sounds like you still maintain the users in LDAP, but use puppet to pull the users out of LDAP and generate shadow, passwd, and group

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
nswer the fileserver.conf question as well - if a node does not have a signed cert, can it still access the fileserver, regardless of the allow/deny rules inside fileserver.conf? -Matt On Wed, 19 May 2010, Christopher Johnston wrote: The masters would get certname = puppet, so the cert fil

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
ster would help with consistency. Still, this is a virtual environment, so nightly snapshots are occuring anyway :) But that still doesn't solve the issue of re-producing a box from the ground up. Anyone else making their puppetmaster a puppet client? -Matt -- You received thi

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
* keepalived to carry the vip * certname = puppet * copy the cert from the primary to the secondary * use a tool to keep /var/lib/puppet/ssl sync'd between the nodes (cron? rsnapshot?) Might have to get a little creative.. I think you can also do a common CA, but that wasn't a requirement for m

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
I do. Although rather than use environments we have a number of different puppetmasters, one per location (which is a logical collection of servers for us) and puppet changes get pushed from staging to live in the same way as everything else does in our workflow. But with even more scrutiny ;) In

Re: [Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
I have a very small separate set of configs that will bootstrap my puppet master installation and the other provisioning services I need to rebuild my entire environment (dhcp etc.) I run (ran, it's been a while) them via the puppet binary so the only prerequisites are access to packages repositor

[Puppet Users] Six Puppet Questions

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
nments (such as "management" and "production"), would I still be able to use exported resources across the two environments, such that I could perhaps manage a single nagios instance to monitor both environments? Or would it be better at that point to keep the management a

Re: [Puppet Users] autosigning - restart required?

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi Chris, The hosts should be able to connect next time they check in. They won't attempt it right away with default configuration, but you can change that of course. Matt -Original Message- From: Christopher Johnston Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:07:16 To: Subject: [Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppetcamp

2010-05-19 Thread Matt
n Hotel (mid way between town's center and > the Camp place) around 6PM. > For me it's ok to arrange for dinner somewhere downtown, we can go to > the place suggested by RIP or wherever... > > Someone else wanna join? Someone is going to stay at Eden Hotel? > > cu soon

RE: [Puppet Users] simple question.

2010-05-17 Thread Matt Ackerman
://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/types/file.html -Matt -Original Message- From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Liu Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 8:32 PM To: Puppet Users Subject: [Puppet Users] simple question. Hi Guys, I'm new to puppet, how can I wr

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Matt Wallace
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 22:53 -0700, Abhishek wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client > configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my > production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I > am using apache and Mongrel for puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not match '}'

2010-05-13 Thread Matt
Hi, I think your missing a ',' where source => "puppet:///apache/$source", Matt On 13 May 2010 05:44, Amandeep Kansal wrote: > Please help me: > what would be the cause of this error: puppetmasterd 0.24.4 > > > define apache::apache_files($ow

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: mcollective scalability

2010-05-07 Thread Matt Wallace
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:29 -0400, Eric Shamow wrote: > Matt, > > Really great posts -- you've inspired me to take a crack at MCollective. Thanks Eric, Let us know how you get on! M. > > -Eric > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Matt Wallace > wrote:

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: mcollective scalability

2010-05-06 Thread Matt Wallace
. Quad > core xeon w/ 3gb ram sitting at 99% idle. > For those of you that are interested, I've put up a few blogposts about configuring ActiveMQ and Mcollective on both Centos and Ubuntu at http://www.threedrunkensysadsonthe.net/ Kind regards, Matt -- You received this message because you a

Re: [Puppet Users] Using classes from extnode to define config files?

2010-04-30 Thread Matt Wallace
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:10 +0200, Peter Meier wrote: > > but I'm not too sure how to set the value of $CLASSNAME. > > we do something similar: > > file{'/etc/exim/exim.conf': >source => [ "puppet://$server/modules/site-exim/${fqdn}/exim.conf", >"puppet://$server/modules/site-

[Puppet Users] Using classes from extnode to define config files?

2010-04-30 Thread Matt Wallace
ot;/etc/exim/exim.conf", ensure => present, source => "puppet:///modules/exim/exim-$CLASSNAME.conf", owner => "exim", group => "exim", mode => 644, require =>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet & EC2: Attach an EBS volume at boot?

2010-04-22 Thread Matt
nly assume its something else doing it I > guess? > > At that point I'd drop to strace on the stuck puppetd and see what its > doing ... if its a large IO it should be obvious as you will see it > read/write on a particular file descriptor. > > I can reproduce it easily o

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet & EC2: Attach an EBS volume at boot?

2010-04-22 Thread Matt
om the main server > then? If not, any suggestions for other tools with which I can > automate this part of the process? > > I'd recommend using Ruby with the right aws library. You can then build the node manifest files in your ruby code and deploy to a directory on your puppet m

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet & EC2: Attach an EBS volume at boot?

2010-04-22 Thread Matt
at using EC2 facters http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Amazon_Ec2_Patterns then your instance will even know it's own instance id etc. I personally prefer to set-up the instances externally with some other tool, saves having AWS credentials on the EC2 instance. Matt -- You

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet & EC2: Attach an EBS volume at boot?

2010-04-21 Thread Matt
try and narrow it down to provide any more info. Matt On 21 April 2010 18:09, Ken wrote: > I didn't seen this myself Matt. I was using 200g EBS volumes. Can you > see the mount command in action while its blocking and try to > replicate manually it with all command line opti

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet & EC2: Attach an EBS volume at boot?

2010-04-21 Thread Matt
e mount command. Occurs if I use the puppet Mount type, or just call mount via exec/bash script. Seems related to the amount of data on the EBS vols (40GB+) Running in debug provides no extra info - running 0.25.4 Thanks, Matt On 21 April 2010 13:44, Phillip B Oldham wrote: > Thanks for

Re: [Puppet Users] howto prevent puppetd fom scheduled runs

2010-03-09 Thread Matt
On 9 March 2010 15:17, Michael DeHaan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Matt wrote: > > On 9 March 2010 15:11, Lutz Bergner wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> this one sounds silly , but so far I failed.: > >> > >> start

Re: [Puppet Users] howto prevent puppetd fom scheduled runs

2010-03-09 Thread Matt
true >ignoreschedules = true > > thanks in advance > There's a bug raised for this. At the moment the only way to get the desired behaviour is to start with puppetd --no-client Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quo

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Upgraded puppet-server from EPEL 24.8 to 25.1 - now seeing "puppetmasterd[xxxx]: Too many connections"

2010-03-08 Thread Matt
Out of interest Mark, how did you go about disabling all modules bar puppet? Matt On 8 March 2010 02:07, Mark Christian wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I've set storeconfigs = false, it's been a > couple hours and I've yet to see any "too many connections"

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