Re: [Puppet Users] Dashboard not retrieving inventory

Nick Lewis
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:44:11 -0000

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Khoury Brazil <khoury.brazil@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Puppet-dashboard appears to be having some trouble. Under inventory, it
says:
> "Could not retrieve facts from inventory service: Permission denied -
> certs/dashboard.private_key.pem"
>
> When I run:
> curl -k -H "Accept: yaml"
https://puppet:8140/production/facts/host.domain
> I get the expected dump of facts.
>
> Versions:
> puppet-dashboard is 1.1.0 (using passenger)
> puppet-master is 2.7.1
>
> Went with an extremely loose config on test:
> Puppet Master:
> auth.conf:
> path /facts
> method find, search
> auth any
> allow *
>
> puppet.conf:
> # Reporting
> reporturl = http://puppetdashboard.domain/reports/upload
> # Testing, to be changed to DB for prod
> facts_terminus = yaml
>
>
> Puppet Dashboard:
> settings.yml:
> # The "inventory service" allows you to connect to a puppet
master to
> retrieve and node facts
> enable_inventory_service: true
> # Hostname of the inventory server.
> inventory_server: ''puppet''
> # Port for the inventory server.
> inventory_port: 8140
>
> Any ideas? I''m stumped at this point. It almost seems like the
> dashboard isn''t asking for inventory at all. I''ve
restarted all
> services with no change, on both the master and dashboard hosts.
>

From the "Permission denied - certs/dashboard.private_key.pem"
message, it looks like the user as which Dashboard is running is
unable to read its certs directory. Did you maybe run the cert-related
rake tasks as root, when Dashboard runs as another user? Make sure
that directory is readable by the appropriate user.

> Thanks,
> Khoury
>
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