Puppet users - Apr 2011 - Node classifier not loading any defined classes

All,

I am sure this is just something I am doing wrong, but I am trying to
implement a node classifier (shell script) to have my nodes inherit
the proper classes.  However, when I run it I am not getting any
classes except those that are defined in default.

Rather than going into detail showing all of my configurations right
off the bat, I have a question:

I just stood up a "development" environment using
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Multiple_Environments
as my base.

In my puppet.conf on puppetmaster I have

cat /etc/puppet.conf
[main]
<snip>
manifest = /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
modulepath = /etc/puppet/modules

[development]
manifest = /etc/puppet_devel/manifests/site.pp
modulepath = /etc/puppet_devel/modules
node_terminus = exec
external_nodes = /.foo/bin/puppet_node_classifier.sh

In my head that tells the development area to use /etc/puppet_devel
and to use the node classifier, whereas the main area uses /etc/
puppet/ and does NOT use the node classifier.

My testing shows that if I run ''puppetd --test'' it loads the
main area
and when I run ''puppetd --test --environment=development'' it
loads the
development environment.  So I think it is working as I expect.

Slightly off topic - Do I need to have a puppet.conf in both /etc/
puppet and /etc/puppet_devel?  Currently I have a copy of the same
file in both locations.

However, as far as I can tell it is not using the /.foo/bin/
puppet_node_classifier.sh script for the hosts.

If I run  ''/.foo/bin/puppet_node_classifier.sh
mybox.mydomain'', I get:

---
classes:
 - lockdown


Then my config file has:

node default {
   include banners
}
class lockdown {
   include restricted
}


Both banners and restricted are modules in /etc/puppet_devel/modules.
It will run banners but it doesn''t run restricted.  To make things
simple, banners is just putting a file in /etc/motd and restricted is
just changing permissions on a different file.

How can I tell if puppet is actually even running the node
classifier?  I tried using --test --debug --trace but the output never
shows that it is trying (should it?).

Is the output of the classifier whitespace sensitive?  Mine is
currently

---\n
classes:\n
<space>-<space>lockdown\n


I have gotten things to work fine when I declare hosts specifically,
but I want to use the node classifier for automation.  I am pretty new
to puppet so please forgive me if I have some idiot mistake.  If this
is all set up correctly and properly running the classifier I''ll
bombard this post with the contents of my config files.

Thanks in advance
Chad

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Well I kind of figured it out (though not how I like).

I had to move these lines

node_terminus = exec 
external_nodes = /.foo/bin/puppet_node_classifier.sh 

out of my [development] area into my [main] in puppet.conf.

Once I did that I was able to use the external classifier (though I only 
wanted it in development).

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On 04/06/2011 09:16 PM, Chad wrote:
> Well I kind of figured it out (though not how I like).
> 
> I had to move these lines
> 
> node_terminus = exec
> external_nodes = /.foo/bin/puppet_node_classifier.sh
> 
> out of my [development] area into my [main] in puppet.conf.
> 
> Once I did that I was able to use the external classifier (though I only
> wanted it in development).
Hi,

looking at
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Multiple_Environments,
I cannot see any indication that those settings are per-environment.

I disbelieve that environments are meant to be independent configuration
overrides. They merely provide you with the means to have independent
clones of your manifests and modules.

Regards,
Felix

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On 2011-04-07 10:13, Felix Frank wrote:
> looking at
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Multiple_Environments,
> I cannot see any indication that those settings are per-environment.
Indeed, the only way to get per-environment external node classifiers
is to have a global wrapper that executes the environment-specific
classifier.  Pretty silly to not support that, IMHO.
> I disbelieve that environments are meant to be independent configuration
> overrides. They merely provide you with the means to have independent
> clones of your manifests and modules.
*Parts* of your modules.  You can''t have custom resource types or
custom
functions per environment.  And that sucks.


	/Bellman

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> *Parts* of your modules.  You can''t have custom resource types or
custom
> functions per environment.  And that sucks.
You can''t? Is there a bug for this that I can vote on?

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On 8 April 2011 19:09, Felix Frank <felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
wrote:
> > *Parts* of your modules.  You can''t have custom resource
types or custom
> > functions per environment.  And that sucks.
>
> You can''t? Is there a bug for this that I can vote on?
>
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4409
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On 04/10/2011 11:46 AM, John Warburton wrote:
> On 8 April 2011 19:09, Felix Frank <felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de
> <mailto:felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de>> wrote:
> 
>     > *Parts* of your modules.  You can''t have custom resource
types or
>     custom
>     > functions per environment.  And that sucks.
> 
>     You can''t? Is there a bug for this that I can vote on?
> 
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4409
Thrilling read ;)

Voted up - thanks.

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