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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

Our shop is newly adopting puppet. Our number of nodes is growing and my installation method is thus far manual and tedious. This will change when/if we migrate to Puppet Enterprise. My question is what''s a best practice for managing puppet installations on client nodes? Is it possible to separate out the client portion of the install from the server or is that now fully

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

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,

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",

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

Morning all Am in the process of testing a migration of Puppet 3 from webrick to Puppet. Have found the foreman modules (https://github.com/theforeman) which seems to take care of a lot of the leg-work... However having got Puppet running with Passenger in Apache, whenever trying to access the Puppet master from a client, I was getting a ''403 Forbidden error''. Have dug

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone got/seen Python code to read puppet reports? I added a bunch of these: class PuppetReport(yaml.YAMLObject): yaml_tag = u''!ruby/object:Puppet::Transaction::Report'' def __init__(self, host, logs, metrics, records, time): self.host = host self.logs = logs self.metrics = metrics self.records = records self.time = time However, the Python YAML

I am a little new to managing large numbers of CentOS/RHEL servers and was wondering what you experienced sysadmins prefer, Spacewalk or Puppet? Thanks, Dan Burkland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091103/de975d32/attachment-0004.html>

Hi, I''m having a weird issue and was wondering if anyone else had run into it. I recently upgraded from puppet 2.7 -> 3.0.1 After cleaning up some gems on my puppet master everything seemed to be working ok. I had originally used the EPEL repo''s to deploy puppet, but switched to the Puppet Labs repos so I could upgrade to 2.7 then 3. On RHEL5 only, I get a RSTRING_PTR

Hi All, I have a working installation of a Puppet Master (CA) with Puppet agents, this using The Foreman. I really see the usage of Puppet this way but because The Foreman supports pushing your classes/templates to you nodes (agents) and uses the depricated Run/Kick for it I''m looking into Mcollective. Mcollective is supported by The Foreman since 1.2, the version I''m