Re: [Puppet Users] Active Directory integration for Linux and Solaris - possible with Puppet ?

2015-08-31 Thread James A. Peltier
nions ? Yes | Thanks in advance for the answers. You're welcome | With kind regards | Zalezny -- -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://

Re: [Puppet Users] Continuous Availability

2015-02-19 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology "Build upon strengths and

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet module

2015-02-15 Thread James A. Peltier
e or to manage it some other way, for example r10k or puppet-librarian, which can be used to manage modules that get installed on the server in an environment. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax :

Re: [Puppet Users] concurrent r10k runs?

2015-01-19 Thread James A. Peltier
.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/011e02bf-0727-4d15-aca5-e8b8583c9f5e%40googlegroups.com | . | For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . We use a lock file to ensure that only one R10K run can operate at a time. R10K does not work in a concurrent manner in our testing. -- Jame

Re: [Puppet Users] Q: Maintaining installation profiles and privisioning using puppet

2014-12-07 Thread James A. Peltier
for help is going to be an exercise in futility. It sounds like you need to write a puppet module that will generate all the configuration necessary to make a machine install. Razor can do that. If that wouldn't work then you need to write the puppet code to do it yourself. -- James A. Pe

Re: [Puppet Users] Q: Maintaining installation profiles and privisioning using puppet

2014-11-21 Thread James A. Peltier
ay that Puppet would control all aspects of the infrastructure, including what OS would be provisioned on the bare metal and then how it would be maintained throughout its lifecycle using Puppet. It sounds like you're interested in Puppet Razor (https://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/latest/razor_

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple "types" of mounts

2013-08-24 Thread James A. Peltier
uot;mounted", | | options => "bind", | | atboot => true, | | } | | | | Sorry this is a mistype. It should be this | | mount { "/export/homes": |device => "/srv/homes", |fstype => "none", |ensure => "mounted", |options => &

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple "types" of mounts

2013-08-23 Thread James A. Peltier
homes", | fstype => "none", | ensure => "mounted", | options => "bind", | atboot => true, | } | Sorry this is a mistype. It should be this mount { "/export/homes": device => "/srv/homes", fstype => "

[Puppet Users] Managing multiple "types" of mounts

2013-08-23 Thread James A. Peltier
=> true, } So I wind up with the following in /etc/fstab LABEL=homes /exports/homes xfs inode64,nobarrier,delaylog,uquota,grpquota 0 0 /srv/homes /exports/homes nonebind0 0 Currently this results in a Could not retrieve catalog from remote server:

Re: [Puppet Users] repositories

2013-08-20 Thread James A. Peltier
entries | for /etc/yum.repos.d/puppetlabs.repo for the above? | Thanks. | --Stuart Something more useful would be lsb_release -a or the output of factor. This information is really not all that useful. -- -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [Puppet Users] Deploying system configurations with another tool?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
hing is wrong, it was wrong from the time of deployment and has therefore *ALWAYS* been wrong. I don't know of any tool that can stop this. Mitigate maybe, but stop it entirely, not a chance. Just my 2c. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fras

Re: [Puppet Users] Delete ypbind.........dependancy headaches.. yp-tools is needed by (installed) ypbind

2013-06-04 Thread James A. Peltier
the packages for removalI only get one of | the errors. | I read some historical threads from a few years back reporting the | same issue, but hoping it's fixed by now. | Other than doing a bit of a nasty exec rpm -e / onlyif rpm -q ypbind | blahwhat's a chap to do? | Regs, | St

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetlabs-apache module a2mod

2013-04-02 Thread James A. Peltier
| Any pointers? Darn my fat fingers. This is on RHEL 6.4, Puppet 2.7.21 (Server and Client). -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://

[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-apache module a2mod

2013-04-02 Thread James A. Peltier
e a2mod doesn't exist at /etc/puppet/modules/development/apache/manifests/init.pp:69 on node I saw the ruby type and provider a2mod get installed when added to the development environment, but I'm not sure why this is failing. Any pointers? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Serv

Re: [Puppet Users] How to apply condition such that jdk doesnt download if its already downloaded in the code given

2013-02-22 Thread James A. Peltier
subscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, | send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. | To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. | Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en | . | For more options, visit http

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet LVM create volume maximum size

2013-01-08 Thread James A. Peltier
which I've never been able to get working: | * size | The size of the logical volume. Set to undef to use all available | space That's what the documentation says but there's no code in the current git repo to make it work. That patch adds support. It's still not been merg

Re: [Puppet Users] Systems Provisioning

2012-09-16 Thread James A. Peltier
man to provision machines. MCollective is certainly actively developed but perhaps that module is not. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : htt

Re: [Puppet Users] RHEL Kickstart and Puppet certificates

2012-09-12 Thread James A. Peltier
figuration of the host. We have automation to commission/decommission hosts which generates or removes the certificate server side. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Ma

Re: [Puppet Users] plugin sync and different platforms

2012-08-20 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | - Original Message - | | On Monday, August 20, 2012, James A. Peltier wrote: | | | | Hi All, | | | | | | I'm trying to write some plugins that should only be sync'd if | | | they're for a specific platform. For example, in our environm

Re: [Puppet Users] plugin sync and different platforms

2012-08-20 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Monday, August 20, 2012, James A. Peltier wrote: | | Hi All, | | | I'm trying to write some plugins that should only be sync'd if | | they're for a specific platform. For example, in our environment | | we're supporting Solaris, Ubuntu, Fe

[Puppet Users] plugin sync and different platforms

2012-08-20 Thread James A. Peltier
d -- osx/cocoa Am I missing something? Is there a way to stop this from happening? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet hanging when listen turned on

2012-08-15 Thread James A. Peltier
just sits there and loops the above strace over and | over again. Telnet to 8139 doesn't work either. Ideas? | | | -- | James A. Peltier | Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | Phone : 778-782-6573 | Fax : 778-782-3045 | E-Mai

[Puppet Users] Puppet hanging when listen turned on

2012-08-14 Thread James A. Peltier
BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 select(7, [5 6], [], [], {1, 99} This sounds an awful lot like http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12185 but it doesn't chew up any CPU time, it just sits there and loops the above strace over and over again. Telnet to 8139 doesn't work either. Ideas

Re: [Puppet Users] Pass array to a define

2012-08-11 Thread James A. Peltier
gets expanded to '/dev/xvdb1/dev/xvdc1' | | Doug. It appears that split is a method for doing this. I found this online. $ifs = split($interfaces,",") define do_this { $mule = "ipaddress_${name}" $donkey = inline_template("<%= scope.lookupv

Re: [Puppet Users] Pass array to a define

2012-08-11 Thread James A. Peltier
volumes be a member of a single data volume during creation. Is the expectation that you'd always specify a lvm:vg with the initial disk and then lvm:vg extend that volume? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Ph

Re: [Puppet Users] a complete solution for puppet

2012-07-26 Thread James A. Peltier
f you want a rather simple way to deploy Puppet+Apache+Passenger+The Foreman, use The Foreman installer which works quite well. Have fun! -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3

Re: [Puppet Users] Schema of dependency tree?

2012-07-25 Thread James A. Peltier
Thank you. | | | -- | Jakov Sosic | www.srce.unizg.hr Add graph = true to the agent section on your puppet client. Then look in /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs. You can then use dot to generate images of the dependencies. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Si

Re: [Puppet Users] why enterprise puppet does not use stored config and puppetdb

2012-07-25 Thread James A. Peltier
on my part, but it's informed speculation based on projects like The Foreman and others which don't yet work with it. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail :

Re: [Puppet Users] Nvidia driver install - condition for install

2012-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
J . | To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. | To unsubscribe from this group, send email to | puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. | For more options, visit this group at | http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Serv

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Setting up puppetmaster

2012-06-13 Thread James A. Peltier
ues I ran into were making sure that the DNS names resolved correctly to the new host and that the new host SSL key was signed by the original CA -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3

Re: [Puppet Users] Which package repository for puppet installation (rh/centos) ?

2011-11-29 Thread James A. Peltier
L with package protections to ensure that EPEL can't destroy the base OS. Worked fine for me so far. Currently EPEL has 2.6.12 in it. Not *too far* behind. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-78

Re: [Puppet Users] Reusing host names with puppet and SSL certificates

2011-10-17 Thread James A. Peltier
ery well for me. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can wi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Setting savedefult options with augeas/puppet

2011-10-16 Thread James A. Peltier
is is intended to do. This is intended to allow us to define which machines should boot Windows by default only. Setting the savedefault parameter on all would not perform the steps we want. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Setting savedefult options with augeas/puppet (SOLVED)

2011-10-16 Thread James A. Peltier
ult saved", "set /files/etc/grub.conf/title[.='Windows']/savedefault 0", "clear /files/etc/grub.conf/title[.='Windows']/savedefault",], } } Thanks again! -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University -

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Setting savedefult options with augeas/puppet

2011-10-16 Thread James A. Peltier
-f ${aug_tmp_file} | && rm -f ${aug_tmp_file}", | onlyif => "grep 'kernel /vmlinuz-2' ${grub_menu} | grep -v | elevator=deadline", | require => Package["augeas"], | } | | Hope that helps, | | -Luke | Thanks for the detailed reply Luke. I&#x

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Setting savedefult options with augeas/puppet

2011-10-13 Thread James A. Peltier
be set to saved | davedefault should be appended after chainloader +1 savedefault should be appended after chainloader +1 -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Websit

[Puppet Users] Setting savedefult options with augeas/puppet

2011-10-12 Thread James A. Peltier
nyone have to deal with this and have a suggestion? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/peopl

Re: [Puppet Users] Selecting repos

2011-07-12 Thread James A. Peltier
exec {"install_alpine": command => '/usr/bin/yum -y install alpine --enablerepo=rpmforge', } } -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jp

[Puppet Users] Enable yum repositories as needed

2011-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
install ganglia-gmond automatically from this repository but I can't figure out how to enable and disable the repo afterwards? Can anyone please provide an example of how something like this may be accomplished? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Frase

Re: [Puppet Users] provisioning bare metal (best practices)

2011-02-22 Thread James A. Peltier
is a security risk since anyone on the network could pose as a machine if they knew that was the setup. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.s