I figured out. On the Dashboard, I have set service_ensure = stopped inside
the old agent, one layer down the group. Then somehow I totally forgot that
setting and just changed the parameter value on the top layer. As a result,
it is always overwritten by the value inside.
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:08:09 PM UTC-4, Stella wrote:
> Actually I installed another puppet agent and it works on this new
> agent...still not on the old agent...very interesting...
>
> I leave init.pp and service.pp untouched, only modify params.pp
>
> from
> $service_ensure = 'running'
>
> to
> $service_ensure = "${::service_ensure}"
>
> Will continue debugging why it works on one agent but not on the other...
>
> On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 2:27:36 PM UTC-4, Stella wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I am trying to pass parameter from Dashboard to modules. For my own
>> testing modules "createfile", it works fine: I can pass file_name variable
>> value from Dashboard to it.
>>
>> class createfile ($file_name=$::file_name) {
>>
>> file {"/tmp/${file_name}":
>> ensure => present,
>> mode => 644,
>> owner => root,
>> group => root,
>> content => "Hello, world2\n",
>> }
>> }
>>
>> However, now I am trying to do the same to NTP module and can't get it to
>> work.
>> I downloaded the NTP module from Puppet Forge. I am trying to control the
>> value of "service_ensure" from Dashboard, either "running" or "stopped".
>>
>> The original structure is like this:
>>
>> In init.pp, $service_ensure is defined as a global variable with :: in
>> front of it:
>> class ntp (
>> $service_ensure = $ntp::params::service_ensure,
>>
>> In service.pp, it points to the service_ensure varible:
>> service { 'ntp':
>> ensure => $service_ensure,
>>
>> In params.pp, it hardcoded the service_ensure as 'running"
>> $service_ensure = 'running'
>>
>> So I thought I can just remove "running" from the params.pp and it should
>> then take the value I placed on Dashboard.
>> But it doesn't work.
>>
>> I tried many combinations and still can't get it to work.
>> Any clue?
>> Many thanks!
>>
>
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