debug puppet agent

[Tiemen Ruiten]

Hello,

This is my first post on this group, so apologies if this has been asked before.

I'm trying to debug why a puppet agent on a Windows 7 node is not doing what I think it's supposed to be doing:

I have installed the rismoney-chocolatey and puppetlabs-powershell providers and have two classes, packages::chocolatey and packages::workstation.

in /etc/puppet/environments/common/packages/manifests/chocolatey.pp

class packages::chocolatey {
  exec { "install-chocolatey":
    creates  => 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey',
    provider => 'powershell',
    command  => 'iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(\'https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1\'))',
  }
}

This one works fine.

and in /etc/puppet/environments/common/packages/manifests/workstation.pp

class packages::workstation {

  package {
    'vlc':              ensure  => 'installed',
    'notepadplusplus':  ensure  => 'installed',
  }
}

This one doesn't work. The puppet agent runs without error, but the two packages are not installed! So I'm trying to find out what exactly puppet is doing, for example the output of the choco command that it's supposed to execute. I'm having a really hard time though finding any documentation or debug logging. How can I see what puppet is doing when it's running? I have attached the output of puppet --debug --onetime

[Josh Cooper]

Are you sure that class is included in the catalog, it doesn't appear puppet ever tries to install those packages.

Also on windows the default package provider is `windows`, so to use chocolatey, you need to specify `provider => chocolatey` in your package resource or create a resource default.

Also, you'll want to make sure that your package resource requires the 'install-chocolatey' exec, so that those steps are performed in the correct order.

 

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[Felix Frank]

On 11/14/2014 06:42 PM, Josh Cooper wrote:
> This one doesn't work. The puppet agent runs without error, but the
> two packages are not installed! So I'm trying to find out what
> exactly puppet is doing, for example the output of the choco command
> that it's supposed to execute. I'm having a really hard time though
> finding any documentation or debug logging. How can I see what
> puppet is doing when it's running? I have attached the output of
> puppet --debug --onetime
>
>
> Are you sure that class is included in the catalog, it doesn't appear
> puppet ever tries to install those packages.
>
> Also on windows the default package provider is `windows`, so to use
> chocolatey, you need to specify `provider => chocolatey` in your package
> resource or create a resource default.
>
> Also, you'll want to make sure that your package resource requires the
> 'install-chocolatey' exec, so that those steps are performed in the
> correct order.

This.

Also, to do plain old "printf" style debugging, add notify { } resources
to your manifest.

HTH,
Felix