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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 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, 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, 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

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;})

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

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

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

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

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

I have about 75 nodes now and recently added 6 of them. They are all running Debian squeeze and all have exactly the same Puppet packages. One is giving an error when I try to enroll it: Failed to import facts: PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR: column "environment" of relation "hosts" does not exist LINE 1: ...d", "created_at", "disk",

I''m new to puppet in general - I just have a minimal node.pp defined for 2 clients so far. Before I reinvent the wheel ... is there a good web UI to facter that everyone uses? I''ve looked over foreman and I figure since it''s new, it''s probably not in widespread use currently. Any suggestions? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

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

Hi, I was wondering what people out there are doing to monitor puppetd in large environments. I''d love to hear what the best practices are around this. We have a few hundred hosts and are currently looking at the timestamps on the yaml files in /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/ on puppetmasters to make sure all clients are alive. Is it true that for a given client the fact file on the

Hi, I would like to add two apps which uses libvirt the site. Ruby Objects for libvirt based on top of the native ruby binding, Virt ruby gem exposes real objects such as Host, Guest, StoragePool, Interface etc. more info at https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt Foreman - Web UI for provisioning and managing servers Among the many things foreman can do, It provides to relevant parts to libvirt:

Hi -- all the docs I can seem to find are related to running puppet with passenger, but not installing it. Does anyone know of any recipes I can use to actually install passenger with my server''s Ruby and Apache installs? Thanks, Doug. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

I am trying to create a hostgroup using the Foreman API (foreman-0.4-0.1rc1.noarch): Using perl v.5.14.2, REST::Client et. al., ending up with sending: POST /hostgroups {"name":"api-created-

After an unexpected and unreasonably long hiatus, I''ve finally returned to implementing Puppet in my environment. My puppetmaster: Puppet 0.25.4, Facter 1.5.7, Ruby 1.8.7, and FreeBSD 8.0. I''ve got five clients using the puppetmaster so far. After about 24 hours, I''ve got three puppetmaster processes running. This number continues to grow over time. If stored configs

Hello everybody, we´re using Red Hat Kickstarts for some systems. On every new kickstart we´ve to delete the client certificate first on the master. Ist there a best practise to renew the certificate or delete it remotely on the master? kind regards, Ano -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on