hi there, i'm currently trying to setup a automated update deliverysystem for a little program we develop. in order to do that efficiently i was tasked to evaluate possible solutions and landed at puppets doorstep.
i wrote a small manifest that should do the trick (and it mostly does) and know its time to go through a couple of setup scenarios different customers may run. one of them includes the usage of proxyservers, so i looked up the reference guide for the puppet.conf file and was happy to find the options "http_proxy_host/port" i thought sweet, just specify the ip / port in the puppet.conf on the client that uses a proxy (c:\programdata\puppetlabs\puppet\etc) and off we go. i my little test setup i run a freeware proxy and setup my gateway of the puppet client to that proxy, in troubleshooting why it doesnt work, i found that i shouldnt specify the ip rather than the fqdn of the proxy. i did that, the client was talking to the server (i guess?) but i runs into an error, that says it didnt find any node definition for my client. if i remove the proxy settings/setup the manifest runs smooth. my initial thoughts would be 2 things i would like advice on: maybe the puppet.conf on the client isnt the right place to try and specify the proxy settings? after a couple of google searches i found hits where people adviced to defining those settings environment variable with export? and since i'm just starting to puppet, i didnt really found that comment to be particulary helpful for me. the second part may be to nameresolution? i dont run a dns server or domain server, just the puppet master in a debian vm and 2 win 7 vms (1 client / the other as the proxy server). since i dont run a domain, i added a dns suffix for the proxy vm and tryed addressing it with "proxyserver.local" in the puppet.conf but that technicaly doesnt qualify as fdqn (right?) and for caution i added the proxy to the hosts file of the puppet client. any pointers to get that going? i have no idea what else i can try. any help would be much appreciated greetings robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1522a178-ce50-4e96-9b9f-fc29aa0a7dec%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
