Thanks for the advice about checking the workers.  That did the trick
(the manual was for the open source pkg, but I managed to figure out
how to apply it to PE2).

Is there any available training on Puppet Enterprise out there?  I see
a lot of it on the open-source package, but have not yet found
anything about PE 2.0.

Robert


On Feb 28, 12:19 pm, "all.lucky.sevens" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Try the 'Starting and managing delayed job workers' section in 
> here:http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html
>
> If the workers aren't running (and they don't run by default unless
> you follow the steps in that section) then you can see a backlog of
> tasks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Robert Stinnett
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And what do we do about that?  I've restarted the services, even
> > restarted the server and nothing comes back to life.
>
> > Robert
>
> > On Feb 23, 9:10 am, Kenneth Lo <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> If that's the case I believe your pe-puppet-dashboard-workers service died
> >> somehow in your master.
>
> >> --KL
>
> >> On 2/23/12 9:51 AM, "Robert Stinnett" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >We are using RHEL - 2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5xen
>
> >> >I do not know of any recent kernel patches (let me put it this way --
> >> >I didn't make any!).
>
> >> >If I go to the "Live Management" part of the dashboard I can control
> >> >the agents, etc -- but they won't do anything in the dashboard view
> >> >and it shows up as over 800 tasks are backlogged on them.
>
> >> >I've searched the log files I could find for any error messages, but
> >> >haven't found anything yet.  It seems strange that the agents work in
> >> >command-line mode, and through the live management, but aren't via the
> >> >dashboard/cron process,
>
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Robert Stinnett
>
> >> >On Feb 22, 3:53 pm, Aaron Grewell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Are you running RHEL 5?  Did you recently patch your kernel?  If so,
> >> >> you've probably been bitten by a kernel bug.  I've successfully used
> >> >> kernel-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 and backrev versions from the
> >> >> kernel-2.6.18-238.x.x series.
>
> >> >> On 02/22/2012 12:26 PM, Robert Stinnett wrote:
>
> >> >> > Hi there,
>
> >> >> > I am relatively new to Puppet (totally new) and had been cruising
> >> >> > right along for a few days until about a week ago when our puppet
> >> >> > agents wentunresponsive.  I've restarted both them and the servers
> >> >> > several times to no avail.  Can anyone point me down the path of how
> >> >> > to diagnose this issue?  We are currently evaluating Puppet to bring
> >> >> > into our Enterprise for managing server provisions/configs/etc.
>
> >> >> > Thanks,
> >> >> > Robert Stinnett
>
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