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I''m trying to run puppet on a node I''m cloning from CD. No IP, no DNS, puppet with a standalone manifest and --use-nodes. I get dnsdomainname errors and a "Network is unreachable" error. I''m using 0.20, but I checked for new options in 0.23 and didn''t see one to turn off networking. Is this an option? Thanks.

I am trying to get a custom fact to sync. The fact is in a module. It will sync if I run puppet with "--pluginsync" but not otherwise. I have "pluginsync=true" in my puppet.conf. Shouldn''t the command line option and puppet.conf option have the same results? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group.

Hi everybody, i''m a lucky Puppet user for a few weeks and i''m currently "blocked" for a "simple" thing. I try to use facter custom values deployed with pluginsync feature in one manifest. Unfortunately, values aren''t available when manifest is executed. I tried to use pre/main stage in order to deploy my facts with a pre stage class but it

Hello, I''ve mcollective 1.2.1 with puppet 2.6.12 on rhel5.6, facter 1.6.2 setup from http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/FactsFacterYAML. Now I''ve create a custom fact in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ customer_status.rb. On the client; Running facter customer_status works. Running ''puppet agent --test'' works, customer_status

Hi all, I''m trying to find a better way to implement this, but I can''t think of. I have a jdk module that requires to create a symlink to whatever version is the one installed. Say I install jdk-6u35, it will create something like /usr/java/jdk_1.6.35. I would like to create a symlink /usr/java/jdk whose target would be /usr/java/jdk_1.6.35. The point here isn''t to ask

Hi, When I run puppet agent --test --environment 42A, I have the following warning : Warning: Local environment: "42A" doesn''t match server specified node environment "production", switching agent to "production". ... The puppet manifest for the environment "42A" isn''t applied. The puppet version is 3.3.1-1puppetlabs1 on agent and

I have a requirement where I want a Fact to be stored in PuppetDB during the manifest run and not during the initial fact gathering phase. I know I can, in my manifests, create a file in /etc/facter/facts.d or I can write a Ruby script that will then be distributed by plugin sync. But both of these methods will only publish the fact during the initial phase of the puppet agent run. What I

Hi all, first post here... reposting this from Stack Overflow as it didn''t get much traction there... I am using puppet to read a fact from facter, and based on that I apply a different configuration to my modules. Problem: the puppet agent isn''t seeing this fact. Running puppet agent --test interactively works as expected. Even running it non-interactively from a script

I am trying to expose a custom fact that requires a certain gem to be installed. However, the facts are being loaded before the module is loaded (and I see why this is the case sine the fact should be made available to the module). So my question is, is there a way to avoid this chicken and egg problem? I tried putting the module in a stage before main, but it still looks like the facts

Group - I''m putting a presentation together for $work (a large .gov) and I want to make sure I get my facts (pun intended) straight ... Are the following steps for Facter-Client-Server interaction correct (I have a feeling not): 1. Client puppet run is initiated (via regular schedule, puppetrun, or puppetd) 2. The client contacts the server and downloads any custom facts it does not

If I externalise my Puppet module config to a directory outside of Puppet using the modulepath / manifestdir settings: [main] pluginsync=true modulepath=/home/ec2-user/projects/qmg-puppet/etc/puppet/modules manifestdir=/home/ec2-user/projects/qmg-puppet/etc/puppet/ manifests the agents log the following error: "Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from source(s)

Hi, I''m following http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules in order to use a custom fact. My modules looks like: # ls manifests/modules/network/ manifests plugins # ls manifests/modules/network/plugins/facter/primaryint.rb manifests/modules/network/plugins/facter/primaryint.rb as is said in doc. Then: Turn on pluginsync and specify factpath, so that the facts

I see the instructions for creating custom facter recipes here: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Adding_Facts and in this thread, James Turnbull suggests that Facter might some day support other languages besides ruby: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/8c127ae8898d3bcf/c5ca551b77c4eb67?lnk=gst&q=facter+perl#c5ca551b77c4eb67 He writes:

Hi, On my puppet node, there are many facter variables that are empty in my manifests. But, there are not empty when I start "facter" on the node. why ? ex in a module: class resolver { if $::ipaddress6 { ... } $domainename = "$domain" } In this manifest, $domain and $ipaddress6 are empty In the facter command line, there not empty. -- You received this

I might have the terminology wrong, but how to a give new puppet providers to the puppet clients? I''m thinking a provider is the thing the puppet client uses to implement a task that the master has given it. Am I way off here? Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Dear all, This is a continuation of another thread, but I think the question diverged enough to create a new one. I have a hiera hierarchy like this: :hierarchy: - %{fqdn} - %{secundary_group} - %{primary_group} - %{productname} - all And I need to define the secondary/primary groups as facts, on the nodes. Gary has suggested me to use plugins, that they will provide the facts before

Dears all, I was testing my localusers facter by puppetmaster fileserver but i''d got in error Could not retrieve localusers: No such file or directory - /etc/ puppet/whitelist I was pretending the file was served by fileserver of puppetmaster doing in init.pp : file { "/etc/puppet/whitelist": ensure => present, Just before to call a facter. I

I have written a custom puppet fact using a ruby script. It is very simple - it just adds a string to a fact. However I have written a module but it appears to me that the custom fact has been applied to all my machines without me specifying any node definitions. When I run a puppet agent --test --noop, I see the custom fact appear in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter. Info: Loading facts in

Is it normal that "facter --puppet" does not show the environment variable? is there a way to have it include it? Thanks a lot, Mohamed. -- 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

Hi guys I have a custom fact envt, it was working fine but now I have to make some changes in it; puppet client''s hostname is of the type 1234qa-abc-de.local where 1234 can be any thing of any length.My custom fact should contain qa, ie I want to check in the first part(before the first -) of the hostname if there exists a pattern/word qa and if it exists then my custom fact for envt