I ended up moving storeconfigs=true and storeconfigs_backend=puppetdb to 
the [main] section in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. No idea why that works as it 
seems to contradict every piece of documentation and examples I've come 
across. If I find time I'll try to figure out why this is.

Thanks,
Mikael


On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:15:00 PM UTC+2, Mikael wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> I've been struggling the last week trying to setup a simple Vagrant + 
> Puppet + Nagios configuration. Everything has been working out quite well 
> but now we've hit a roadblock trying to wrap our heads around how to use 
> Nagios_host <<||>>. 
> The setup is basic: we use an Ubuntu Precise 64 Vagrant box, followed the 
> instructions from Puppetlabs (
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_exported.html) on 
> how to setup Puppetdb, connect the master etc. On top of this we installed 
> Nagios3. 
>
> The goal is to make this first box a puppet master and Nagios server and 
> to be able to add slaves to this configuration at a later stage. Things 
> seem to work, running "puppet agent --test" generates some sane log entries 
> in the Puppetdb log and so on. However, as soon as we add Nagios_host 
> <<||>> to the mix we start to get the following warnings:
>
> *"Warning: Not collecting exported resources without storeconfigs" and 
> "Warning: You cannot collect exported resources without storeconfigs being 
> set; the collection will be ignored on line /...".*
>
> No configuration files are generated in /etc/nagios3/ either. We would at 
> least expect a /etc/nagios3/nagios_host.conf file to created.
>
> The googable information one can find regarding issues like these tend to 
> point towards adding storeconfigs=true and storeconfigs_backend=puppetdb to 
> /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. That was done automatically for us since we used 
> the puppet::puppetdb::config and puppetdb classes in our manifests. Issuing 
> "puppet config print all | grep store" and "puppet master --configprint all 
> | grep store" differes depending on the logged in user. In our Vagrant box 
> the puppet master service is run as the user "puppet". This user for some 
> reason tries to pull the configuration from "/var/lib/puppet/.puppet"
>
> *. Is there a way to figure out which configuration file Puppet actually 
> loaded? To me it seems "--configprint" and "config print" shows what Puppet 
> would try to load starting the service as the logged in user. Have we 
> misunderstood this completely? Or is it something else causing Puppet not 
> to generate the expected Nagios configuration files?*We have tried a few 
> things in order to understand this issue but still no go:
> - Run the service/services as root "puppet master --user root" (would load 
> the configuration from /etc/puppet).
> - Set the confdir, vardir, stireconfigs etc from the command line "puppet 
> master --storeconfigs --confdir /etc/puppet/ --vardir /var/lib/puppet"
> - Tried CentOS
> - Added tons of logging where we could "--debug --verbose --trace"
>
> We also tried the following Vagrant+Puppet box from GitHub (removing the 
> Puppet dashboard stuff, adding Nagios): 
> https://github.com/grahamgilbert/vagrant-puppetmaster. Same result.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Clearly people have this working so it really has to be us not figuring 
> this out. What would be a good next step in order to troubleshoot this 
> issue? Can we add more logging somewhere? Any input would be much 
> appreciated!*Thanks,
> Mikael
>
> Attaching some information below for reference:
> // /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
> [main]
> logdir=/var/log/puppet
> vardir=/var/lib/puppet
> ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
> rundir=/var/run/puppet
> factpath=$vardir/lib/facter
> templatedir=$confdir/templates
> pluginsync=true
> [agent]
> report=true
> [master]
> # These are needed when the puppetmaster is run by passenger
> # and can safely be removed if webrick is used.
> ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN 
> ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
> dns_alt_names = puppet, puppet.local, puppet.pebbleit.dev
> reports = store, http, puppetdb
> #reports = store, http
> reporturl = http://localhost:3000/reports/upload
> node_terminus = exec
> external_nodes = /usr/bin/env 
> PUPPET_DASHBOARD_URL=http://localhost:3000/usr/share/puppet-dashboard/bin/external_node
> storeconfigs = true
> storeconfigs_backend = puppetdb
>
> // /etc/puppet/puppetdb.conf
> [main]
> port = 8081
> server = puppet.grahamgilbert.dev
>
> // /etc/puppet/routes.yaml
> # This file was automatically generated by the puppetdb module.
>
> master:
>       facts:
>         terminus: puppetdb
>         cache: yaml
>
> // dpkg -l | grep puppet
> vagrant@puppet:~$ dpkg -l | grep puppet
> ii  facter                           2.0.1-1puppetlabs1          Ruby 
> module for collecting simple facts about a host operating system
> ii  hiera                            1.3.2-1puppetlabs1          A simple 
> pluggable Hierarchical Database.
> ii  puppet                           3.5.1-1puppetlabs1          
> Centralized configuration management - agent startup and compatibility 
> scripts
> ii  puppet-common                    3.5.1-1puppetlabs1          
> Centralized configuration management
> ii  puppet-dashboard                 1.2.21-1puppetlabs1         Dashboard 
> for Puppet
> ii  puppetdb                         1.6.3-1puppetlabs1          PuppetDB 
> Centralized Storage.
> ii  puppetdb-terminus                1.6.3-1puppetlabs1          Connect 
> Puppet to PuppetDB by setting up a terminus for PuppetDB.
> ii  puppetlabs-release               1.0-7                       "Package 
> to install Puppet Labs gpg key and apt repo"
> ii  puppetmaster                     3.5.1-1puppetlabs1          
> Centralized configuration management - master startup and compatibility 
> scripts
> ii  puppetmaster-common              3.5.1-1puppetlabs1          Puppet 
> master common scripts
> ii  ruby-rgen                        0.6.5-1puppetlabs1          A 
> framework supporting Model Driven Software Development (MDSD)
>
> // uname -a
> Linux puppet 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> // ps -Af | grep puppet
> vagrant@puppet:~$ ps -Af | grep puppet
> puppetdb  1492     1  1 09:04 ?        00:02:00 
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 
> %p -Xmx192m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError 
> -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/puppetdb/puppetdb-oom.hprof -jar 
> /usr/share/puppetdb/puppetdb.jar services -c /etc/puppetdb/conf.d
> postgres  1977   926  0 09:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53676) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> postgres  2040   926  0 09:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53687) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> postgres  4200   926  0 10:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53721) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> root      4591     1  0 10:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ruby 
> /usr/bin/puppet agent --storeconfigs
> puppet    7606     1  1 10:37 ?        00:00:41 /usr/bin/ruby 
> /usr/bin/puppet master --masterport=8140
> postgres  8118   926  0 11:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53801) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> postgres  8119   926  0 11:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53802) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> postgres  8120   926  0 11:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53803) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> postgres  8121   926  0 11:04 ?        00:00:00 postgres: puppetdb 
> puppetdb 127.0.0.1(53804) 
> idle                                                                          
>  
>
> vagrant   8251  7685  0 11:14 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto puppet
> vagrant@puppet:~$ 
>  
>
>
>

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