[Puppet Users] Re: how to catch errors

2011-04-21 Thread eshamow
We use a dashboard -- in our case Foreman -- and watch for hosts returning anything other than complete success. Any diagnostic messages at all drop the host into "hosts that made modifications" category, and errors drop the host into "hosts in error state." I have my team watching the dashboard

[Puppet Users] Re: Do we need a new name for "--test"?

2011-01-23 Thread eshamow
I can tell you that for me, and for my group, it's a halfway step between reloading Puppet and watching the logs, and a full --debug -- no-daemonize run. So for instance, when they're troubleshooting a bug in a newly-written or modified class, I suggest a puppetd -tv run to just output the errors

[Puppet Users] Re: mcollective for rhel 4

2011-01-23 Thread eshamow
The Fedora 13 SRPMs backport pretty easily, and you get the advantage of Ruby 1.8.6. -Eric On Jan 22, 11:32 am, Ohad Levy wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > hey, > > > - Original Message - > > > Is their a mcollective rpm for rhel4? If not, is their a src

[Puppet Users] Ensure NFS mounts fails

2010-03-23 Thread eshamow
I've got an NFS mount with ensure => mounted set. Puppet properly adds the mount to fstab and it mounts on boot; however on every subsequent run I get the following error: err: //mod-ssf3/Mount[nfs_var_www]/ensure: change from present to mounted failed: Execution of '/bin/mount -o vers=3,rsize=32