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Hi, We''re using thin stored configs heavily to manage things like Munin and Nagios and we''re currently wondering what to do when nodes go away, or change considerably. If we get rid of a server then all it''s stored config is still present in the database, as well as it''s nagios and munin configurations. We created a script that iterates through the database

Anyone had any experience getting puppet to update multiple OS''s on a single server? For example, for a set of blades Network booting from a primary server, the OS for each blade would be stored on the primary server. For example: /pxe/host1/<normal OS directory structure> /pxe/host2/<normal OS directory structure> ..... /pxe/hostn/<normal OS directory structure> Can

Hello All, I''m new to puppet, and I''d like to know: Is there a formal best practices guide for syncing { /etc/passwd, shadow, group, hosts} across clients from the master? For instance; is it a better practice to make a hard link to these files and share the link, as opposed to just sharing the files directly via a target in fileserver.conf? Inquiring minds want to know...

Hi all, I''ve noticed, that once using storeconfig, if the db (in my case mysql) is down than puppet wont start... is there a real reason for making puppet depend on the db? Thanks, Ohad _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users

Greeting Puppeteers, ( I sent this from the wrong address so it may be a duplicate post after moderation ) I recently discovered puppet from the debian administration site and thought I might install it after BASHING my head against cfengine the last 3 times I tried to install it. I installed puppetmaster on my primary server and dropped puppet on a couple of xen virtuals. It worked

I have this in nodes.pp $puppetmaster_fqdn = generate("/usr/bin/facter","fqdn") and this in a template http://<%= puppetmaster_fqdn %>:8080 When puppet runs, this is the result: http://puppet.home :8080 Anybody any clue to whats causing this? I''ve tried -%> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet

Hi, First of all, this is my very first message to this list, so please bear with me while I''m getting used to it. Sorry for any non-standard way to ask a question here which I can be using without prior knowledgment. I would like to be able to set up some config parameters on a given node which is going to be config-managed by Puppet and, for various reasons, I would like to be able

Hello All, Moving from 2.5 to 2.6.2 and I was wondering if there is a preferred directory structure for using multiple environments? Does it work much different in 2.6 than in 2.5? When I made the move I assumed (I know) that my current structure and configurations would just roll over but that isn''t the case. Thanks, Jim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

My manifest includes this snippet class app_client_openbsd { $app_client_pkgs_obsd = [ ''glib2-2.24.1p2'', ''gtar-1.23p1'' ] package { "${app_client_pkgs_obsd}": ensure => ''installed'', source => "http://${installserver}/openbsd/${operatingsystemrelease}/packages/${hardwaremodel}/${name}.tgz", } This

Hi all, I am new to puppet and also newcomer in this group. I heart good things about puppet and I decided to give it a try 2 weeks now. After reading various documentation, I began using the complete configuration collection of puppet modules (thanks to David). But I have a problem with the munin module. It works fine, except that it seems to not export virtual ressources. Let me give more detail

I''m running into an issue trying to do something like the following: class test { file {"test": content => template(''mytemplate1'',''mytemplate2''), } } class test::test2 inherits test { File["test"] { content +> template(''mytemplate3''), } } So, basically I want the inherited class to tack on another

Hi all, We''re writing a few scripts at the moment that could really make use of Facter, however the vast majority of them team (including my self!) are not proficient in Ruby, however they are highly proficient in other languages such as (dare I say it!) Python. Is there (or are there any plans to!) release bindings for other languages to enable facts to be used in scripts other

Hello. I use puppet 2.6.3-rc2 Now I try move my classes to modules. But I got a problem that Puppet does not sees modules. in puppet.conf: [main] logdir = /var/log/puppet rundir = /var/run/puppet ssldir = $vardir/ssl libdir = /opt/puppet-dashboard/lib/puppet modulepath=$confdir/modules In nodes : node postgres { include basesystem include postgres } In

Folks: I''ve started to play around with the comprehensive integrated module set from example42 (http://www.example42.com/). Following the instructions, I set up one node as a nagios server, with ''include nagios''. I set up another node to be monitored via nagios, with ''include nagios::target". I set $monitor=true for the base node, which is inherited by

Hi, I''m building a staging environement and I would like it to be able to redeploy automatically, after each commit - or every hour, some applications. Those applications are right now deployed and set up by puppet. I wonder if I should use puppet to redeploy those applications after each commit, and if I should how trigger, on the puppet, a full redeployement of the application ? --

Hi there, I have a strange problem with the exported ressources in the munin module I wrote. See: http://mail.madstop.com/pipermail/puppet-users/2007-June/003179.html For some reason it stopped working. On the munin::host I get the error that: err: Could not retrieve configuration: Exported resource File[munin_def_XY_4949] cannot override local resource The munin::host is also a

Greetings, I''m trying to wrap my head around a solution to a problem I''m facing with an exported resources configuration I have. I''m using the following simple config to build a munin configuration: @@file { "/etc/munin/munin.conf.d/${::fqdn}.node": content => "[All Hosts;${::fqdn}] address ${ipaddress_eth0} use_node_name yes\n\n", tag

Hello list. I''ve the following parent class: class munin::client { ... munin::client::plugin { "postfix_mailqueue": name => "postfix_mailqueue", enable => "false" } } And the following inherited class: class munin::client::plugins::postfix inherits munin::client { munin::client::plugin {

G''day. We recently found some issues with the `links => follow` setting in recursive file copying; the designed behaviour is that it should allow you to determine if the master serves a symlink in a module as a symlink, or as the content of the file that the symlink points to. The full details are here: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12418 The short version is that toggling

Hello all. Probably this question has already been posed in the context of another software, but I am unable to find it. I would like to implement a module which should manage munin-clients as well as the munin-server. Here is what I am thinking about implementing: - There are two classes: munin::client and munin::server - munin::clients'' configuration will be managed automatically.