Master Timeout

[de]

Howdy,

our puppet master is hosting nagios at the same time. it happens that
the compilation of the catalog for the master during a puppet run
produces a timeout:

===
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: execution expired
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
===

If the whole nagios part is commented out for the master host puppet
runs fine. I think it is due to loads of stored configs that have to
be collected.

Easiest solution for me would be to increase the timeout on the
master. How and where can the timeout be changed? Are there other
options to speed up the compilation process?

Regards,
David

[Christopher Wood]

Maybe I'm lazy but on our puppetmasters I have a cron job doing "puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp".

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[Adam Heinz]

> Maybe I'm lazy but on our puppetmasters I have a cron job doing "puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp".

I don't think that works with storeconfigs.

[root@puppet ~]# rpm -q puppet-server
puppet-server-2.6.16-1.el6.noarch

[root@puppet ~]# grep storeconfigs /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
storeconfigs = true

[root@puppet ~]# puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
warning: You cannot collect without storeconfigs being set on line 7
in file /etc/puppet/modules/nagios/manifests/target.pp
warning: You cannot collect without storeconfigs being set on line 14
in file /etc/puppet/modules/nagios/manifests/target.pp
...

I think the canonical form is more like:

/usr/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize --no-listen --onetime

[Nan Liu]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Adam Heinz <a...@metricwise.net> wrote:
>> Maybe I'm lazy but on our puppetmasters I have a cron job doing "puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp".
>
> I don't think that works with storeconfigs.
>
> [root@puppet ~]# rpm -q puppet-server
> puppet-server-2.6.16-1.el6.noarch
>
> [root@puppet ~]# grep storeconfigs /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
>    storeconfigs = true
>
>
> [root@puppet ~]# puppet apply /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
> warning: You cannot collect without storeconfigs being set on line 7
> in file /etc/puppet/modules/nagios/manifests/target.pp
> warning: You cannot collect without storeconfigs being set on line 14
> in file /etc/puppet/modules/nagios/manifests/target.pp
> ...

You can use storeconfigs via puppet apply if you have the appropriate
storeconfigs settings in section [main] rather than [master].

Nan