Puppet Enterprise Installation Error on CentOS7

[Nikhil Rao]

I tried to install puppet enterprise from puppet master and while selecting monolithic installation and setting upto 500 nodes and setting up the DNS name and the alias name and encountered an error WARNING 1: set 2 CPU cores instead of 4 CPU cores WARNING 2: set at-least 100GB space in /Opt folder. And i ended up in the following error "Error: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. Error: /Stage[main]/Puppetenterprise::Master::Puppetserver/Service[pe-puppetserver]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details."

What should i change in my vmware settings???? Please advice

[Martin Alfke]

Hi,

On 05 Dec 2015, at 04:16, Nikhil Rao <raoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to install puppet enterprise from puppet master and while selecting monolithic installation and setting upto 500 nodes and setting up the DNS name and the alias name and encountered an error WARNING 1: set 2 CPU cores instead of 4 CPU cores WARNING 2: set at-least 100GB space in /Opt folder. And i ended up in the following error "Error: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. Error: /Stage[main]/Puppetenterprise::Master::Puppetserver/Service[pe-puppetserver]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details."
> What should i change in my vmware settings???? Please advice

Like the installer mentions: your PE Master should have 2-4 cores minimum.

First guess: RAM
PE has several java applications running:
- puppetserver
- puppetdb
- node classifier
A properly sized PE Master should have 6-8 GB RAM.

Second guess:
do you have selinux enabled?
Is a local firewall running?

You might want to check the PE puppet server log file (/var/log/puppetlabs/puppetserver/puppetserver.log)

Best,
Martin


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[Nikhil Rao]

I have posted the log file and the error is as follows . But couldnt decode what the exact error is ... Please can you advice on what the issue is  exactly and i have changed the Cores and it didnt throw a warning. But still stuck at pe-puppetserver

 

[Martin Alfke]

Hi Nikhil,

please paste the log file (/var/opt/puppetlabs/puppetserver/puppetserver.log) into gist (not a screenshot).
http://gist.github.com/

I assume that the error is at the end of the file.

Did you run the journalctl -xn command (like mentioned in the output)?
The error log snippet you have pasted indicates, that you can not reach official cents mirrors.
Has your VM access to the internet? Can you run ‘yum update’ successfully on the machine?

Best,
Martin

On 06 Dec 2015, at 00:27, Nikhil Rao <raoni...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I tried to install puppet enterprise from puppet master and while selecting monolithic installation and setting upto 500 nodes and setting up the DNS name and the alias name and encountered an error WARNING 1: set 2 CPU cores instead of 4 CPU cores WARNING 2: set at-least 100GB space in /Opt folder. And i ended up in the following error "Error: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. Error: /Stage[main]/Puppetenterprise::Master::Puppetserver/Service[pe-puppetserver]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[pe-puppetserver]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start pe-puppetserver' returned 1: Job for pe-puppetserver.service failed. See 'systemctl status pe-puppetserver.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details."
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[evan....@noaa.gov]

Rao-
  First thing you need to do is make your harddrive bigger. 10G is just not going to cut it. Second, looks like you have a network issue, so you probably need to fix that. I would just wipe the VM, start with new one that has working network, and atleast a configured to the puppet recommended minimums.