Cannot see Inventory in Dashboard & failed to use facer variable in manifest

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

In Dashboard, in the 'Inventory' section I get nothing but the error:

    Could not retrieve facts from inventory service: 403 "Forbidden"

When I tried to use facter variables in the manifest, it look like it's not working. (I new in that so I never tried it before).

I have something like this:

    case ${hostname} {

         'puppetagent': {include sendmail}

    }

But when I run puppet on the agent, I get the error: 

    Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not parse for environment production: Could not match ${hostname} at    

    /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp:17 on node puppetagent

Is it possible that the problems are connected? How can I solve that problem?

Any help welcome.

[Jeff Bachtel]

Try

case $hostname {
'puppetagent': {include sendmail}
}

BUT, that's really the wrong pattern to be following, you should instead
create a node definition for "puppetagent" that includes the sendmail class.

node puppetagent.yourdomain {
include sendmail
}

Jeff

> --
> 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 puppet-users...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/80e4abd7-1bad-48d3-94ac-1c61b00fae74%40googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your quick response.

I tried it and now I get:

    Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with 'puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il,   

    puppetagent.weizmann.ac, puppetagent.weizmann, puppetagent' on node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il

It can be that the Dashboard and the above problem connected and I have something wrong in my puppet configuration?

Any idea are welcome.

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

please be aware that "puppetagent.yourdomain" is a contrived example.
Try "node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il" or just "node puppetagent".

HTH,
Felix

On 12/12/2013 07:35 AM, shlo....@gmail.com wrote:
> I tried it and now I get:
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with
> 'puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il,
> puppetagent.weizmann.ac, puppetagent.weizmann, puppetagent' on
> node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il

...
> node puppetagent.yourdomain {
> include sendmail
> }

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

When I write the name of the agent explicitly :

    node puppetagent.yourdomain { 
        include sendmail 
    } 

it's work. 

I get the mention error when I try to use the facter and use $hostname in my manifest file node.pp

Thanks a lot.

[Felix Frank]

This is getting confusing.

Please share what your nodes.pp looks like now and what error that yields.

Thanks,
Felix

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

1.  When I have in node.pp:

         case $hostname {

             'puppetagent': {include sendmail}

         }

    I got the error:

        Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with 'puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il,   

        puppetagent.weizmann.ac, puppetagent.weizmann, puppetagent' on node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il

2.  When I have:

         node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il { 
             include sendmail 
         } 

     it's work okay.

3.  I also don't have the 'Inventory' section in Dashboard and I have only the error:

        Could not retrieve facts from inventory service: 403 "Forbidden"

     under the 'Inventory' title.

Thank you for your promptly answer.

[Felix Frank]

Ah, OK, you lack a default node. The puppet master expects to find some
node, a simple workaround could be 'node default {}' anywhere in site.pp
or node.pp.

But, as Jeff pointed out - don't do that, there is no reason to prefer
the silly-ish case pattern in this context.

As gor the 403 error wrt. the inventory service - that may be an
auth.conf issue. Does the dashboard keep an error log or log of any
sort? Try looking in its rack home. You may get a clue what the specific
request is that is getting blocked.

HTH,
Felix

On 12/12/2013 10:33 AM, shlo....@gmail.com wrote:
> 1. When I have in node.pp:
> case $hostname {
> 'puppetagent': {include sendmail}
> }
> I got the error:

> /Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400

> on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with

> 'puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il <http://puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il/>, /
> / puppetagent.weizmann.ac
> <http://puppetagent.weizmann.ac/>, puppetagent.weizmann, puppetagent' on
> node puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il <http://puppetagent.weizmann.ac.il/>/

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

I add 'node default {}'. 

Now I don't get any errors but it don't execute the 

      case $hostname { 
           'puppetagent': {include sendmail} 

      } 

Puppet don't use the value in $hostname.

I understood that it's not recommended way to use $hostname as variable, but it should work. Am I right?

About the Dashboard, I use Puppet with Passenger.

In /etc/httpd/logs/error_logs I have a lot of (I think each time Dashboard refreshed) warning:

[ 2013-12-12 12:34:30.0426 24489/7f1dac713700 Pool2/Implementation.cpp:1291 ]: [App 29486 stderr] warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session

[ 2013-12-12 12:34:30.0427 24489/7f1dac713700 Pool2/Implementation.cpp:1280 ]: [App 29486 stderr] 

I don't know how to find the ruby logs.

Thanks a lot.

[Felix Frank]

On 12/12/2013 11:42 AM, shlo....@gmail.com wrote:
> case $hostname {
> 'puppetagent': {include sendmail}
> }
> Puppet don't use the value in $hostname.

Is this in the top scope, i.e. not inside a class {}, node {} or define
{} block?

> About the Dashboard, I use Puppet with Passenger.
> In /etc/httpd/logs/error_logs I have a lot of (I think each time
> Dashboard refreshed) warning:
> [ 2013-12-12 12:34:30.0426 24489/7f1dac713700
> Pool2/Implementation.cpp:1291 ]: [App 29486 stderr] warning: peer
> certificate won't be verified in this SSL session

This looks weird. Implementation.cpp? Is dashboard written in C++, or am
I misreading this?
This may not be related to your issues at all.

How and where did you install dashboard?

[shlo....@gmail.com]

In the end of the file I add :

    node default {

     }

Thanks again

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Sorry I had a spelling mistake in the hostname. Now the manifest file work okay with the $hostname variable.

I left with the problem with Dashboard that don't give me the 'Inventory' details.

Sorry & Thanks again for the promptly answers.

[shlo....@gmail.com]

Hi,

For installing Dashboard, I follow the instruction in:

  http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/index.html

  In section 'Serving Dashboard With Passenger and Apache' I use the default port 80. 

  I tried to change it to port 3000, but all the Dashboard stop working.

I search the file Implementation.cpp and I find it in 

/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-4.0.25/ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp

I'm using Apache + Passenger. It look that this error appear in the error_log each time the Dashboard refresh.

But it can be that it not directly connect to my problem.

In the file /etc/puppet/auth.conf I add:

  path /facts

  auth yes

  method find, search

  allow dashboard

Any idea why I'm still getting, in the 'Inventory' section,  the error:

  Could not retrieve facts from inventory service: 403 "Forbidden"

Thanks a lot.

On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:45:49 PM UTC+2, Felix.Frank wrote:

....