Hi, anyone managed to get a working setup based on hiera with mysql backend? Here is the link to howto I followed: http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/03/introducing-hiera-mysql-mysql-backend-for-hiera/ I''ve tried it but got problems – %{key} seems to be empty in SQL query when puppet does hiera lookup. Here is the query from hiera.yaml config file: :query: SELECT val FROM nodes WHERE var=’%{key}’ AND server=’%{fqdn}’ Table nodes structure: CREATE TABLE `nodes` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `server` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `var` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `val` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 When I do hiera lookup from the command line it works just fine: #hiera -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml owner fqdn=cluster2.int tester But when I run “puppetd -t” on the cluster2.int server I get this: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item owner in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at /etc/puppet/modules/apache/manifests/init.pp:3 on node cluster2.int Line 3 in /etc/puppet/modules/apache/manifests/init.pp is: $owner = hiera(‘owner’) For debug purpose I’ve changed SQL query to the following: :query: SELECT val FROM nodes WHERE var=%{key} AND server=’%{fqdn} START%{key}END’ That’s what I got then: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND server=’cluster2.int STARTEND” at line 1 at /etc/puppet/ modules/apache/manifests/init.pp:3 on node cluster2.int So as you can see %{key} is empty in the SQL query ( ’%{fqdn} START% {key}END’ tuns into "cluster2.int STARTEND"). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.