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Hello All, So I finally got around to start to cut over node definitions from standard flat files to external nodes (foreman), and getting error message: "Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find node ''nodename''; cannot compile" - So basically it can''t pick up the node from the external node config. When I test the fetching of the yaml file it seems to work

Hello All, I don''t seem to be able to get reports to display on the foreman interface. I copied extras/puppet/foreman/files/foreman-report.rb to / usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reportsforeman.rb, instead of /usr/ lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/reports/foreman.rb. Config: Centos5.4, Apache/ Passenger, Puppet 0.25.4. The reports are coming from the clients, because I can see them in

Hi, I have a Puppet Enterprise (2.0) puppetmaster running with Foreman, and having trouble getting it working as an External Node Classifier. In short, if I manually add a test client into site.pp, it will retrieve the proper catalog / classes, but I would like to avoid having to do that. I''m also using environments (production/testing/ development) as well, but think I have most of

I updated some of my gems, and I think it may be the reason I am getting the following error when the agents try to retrieve a catalog. err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: ''Host::Managed''. This error is raised because the column ''type'' is reserved for

Hello Gang, I''m working on scaling my puppet solution, and I''m deploying multiple masters w/ passenger that are going sit behind a load balancer. If anyone is using these type of setup, would you share how you deal with the SSL certs? I''ve been following Bode''s Blog (http://bodepd.com/wordpress/?p=7), and it''s not working to good for me.

Hello All, How do I specify a variable that has a space in it? I''m trying to setup a yum repo that has two different baseurl''s based on the product name ($productname). Default goes one way, but if the product is "PowerEdge 2650" then is a different URL. The thing is, that is only picking up the default. How should I specify the value with the space in the

Hello, I try config puppet with foreman frontend. Into puppetmasterd I create modules "test" and create init.pp: # Create "/tmp/testfile" if it doesn''t exist. class test_class { file { "/tmp/testfile": ensure => present, mode => 644, owner => root, group => root } } Configure nodes in site.pp and import

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...

Dear all I am trying to set up reports in foreman, but foreman tells me to configure it. What am I doing wrong? I have on the puppet master: /var/lib/puppet/reports/foreman.rb with $foreman_url=http://rh6-puppet-master Do I need the port? /etc/puppet/puppet.conf with in [main] reports = log, foreman I restarted the service service puppetmaster restart in /var/log/messages I find: No

Hello, I ran into this problem today, I am trying to implement "One click installation", I followed foreman howtos and set up the pre-requisites accordingly. However, when I click on "Build" button, I get the following errors in the foreman''s console and another error in the web interface indicating that the installation failed. Any ideas? *"PuppetCA: SSL/CA or

Hello All, I''m happy to announce a new release candidate of Foreman, top highlights for this release includes: * New look and feel * Extended restful API * Support for New Puppet Reports format * Full VM/physical host Provisioning * Powerful template generator ( pxelinux, gpxe, kickstart, preseed, grub etc..) * introduce a new service called smart proxy (which can run on remote

Hello All, I''m happy to announce the next stable release of Foreman, main new features include: - Integration of Puppet Reports, once enabled you would see a real time overview of all of yours hosts status. - Improved support for multiple Puppet Masters (e.g. import facts and reports from remote serves over http) - Simplified migration from existing external nodes setup,

Hello All, In all the examples that I see you configure one repo per file; i.e: yumrepo { "testing.com-repo": baseurl => "http://repos.testing.com/fedora/$lsbdistrelease/", descr => "Testing.com''s YUM repository", enabled => 1, gpgcheck => 0, } But how do I specify multiple entries to the same file?. For instance, I just one to have one

Hello, I have enabled summary emails from foreman and set up a cron job which sends me periodic summary emails. However, the mail''s content is sort of plain text. Now this is more like a feature request rather than a problem, I am wondering if we could use some kind of HTML template and pass the values through this HTML template and then mail the output as a summary email to the

Is there a way to force the puppetmaster to resign certificates for existing certificates when a new CSR for the same hostname arrives? When we reinstall freshly formatted clients with puppet (with the same hostname) the puppet client complains: err: Could not request certificate: Retrieved certificate does not match private key; please remove certificate from server and regenerate it

Hello, I''m very excited and pleased to share the release of Foreman 1.0 Since the change log is quite extensive, I would simply refer you to the change log [1] and would highly suggest to read it if you are upgrading. About Foreman: Foreman is an opensource management tool, design to help you to manage your infrastructure. Foreman takes over provisioning(bare metal, virtual or in the

All, First attempt at running foreman. [pax] prov01 /usr/share/foreman/script:# ./server -e production => Booting WEBrick => Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000 /usr/share/foreman/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in `old_load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant Puppet::Rails (NameError) from

Hi, i just installed foreman from the git repository and the dropdown menu does not work. Don''t know xhtml well but opera tells me: Uncaught exception: ReferenceError: Undefined variable: Form Error thrown at line 3, column 0 in http://130.149.58.152/: new Form.Element.EventObserver(''settings_dropdown'', function(element, value) {window.location.href = value;})

I''m playing around with foreman for the moment. I can''t seem to figure out how to make the dashboard look like in this screenshot http://theforeman.org/wiki/foreman/Screenshots#Dashboard In order for those statistics to work what should be done? I have activated the rrdgraph reports in puppetd, uncommented the line ":rrd_report_url: report/" in config/settings.yaml

I''m pleased to announce the release of Foreman 0.3 Download from: Source: http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/237/foreman-0.3.tar.bz2 RPM: http://yum.theforeman.org/stable/RPMS/foreman-0.3-1.noarch.rpm It is recommended to upgrade your foreman smart proxy to the latest version as well. Highlights of this release include: SearchingAn extensive rewrite of the search system was