Puppet can't fetch catalog

[Alessandro Ciappei]

Hello all,

my apologies if this topic is already discussed. I try to research it but I didn't find any solution.

I have the following infrastructure:

One RHEL Satellite 6 with several capsule server around our datacentres.

I implement puppet and ansible correctly, sync the puppet environment with rsync (the RHEL Sync doesn't work).

I moved to RHEL satellite 6.11 (where they remove the puppet support, but still in the code). I install again puppet on all server.

On the principal satellite server works perfectly, but on capsule servers not.

[root@am-sv-satcap02 opt]# puppet agent -t
Info: Using environment 'production'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Failed when searching for node am-sv-satcap02.linux.netops.local: You must set the 'external_nodes' parameter to use the external node terminus
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
[root@am-sv-satcap02 opt]#

Some, can help me to sort out of this problem?

All the best

Alex

[Ben Ford]

On the Puppet server, you will need either both of these parameters set (when using Satellite for classification), or both of them unset (when not using Satellite for classification).

external_nodes = /etc/puppetlabs/code/node.rb
node_terminus = exec

[Ben Ford]

(and then you'll need to restart the server)