Satellite Puppet

[warron.french]

Does this community support questions related to Red Hat Satellite's implementation of Puppet, or only PuppetLabs developed and supported products more generically?

I have a question about the phases of tasks that must be completed within a Red Hat Satellite Puppet Environment and how to get them "onto" the Puppet Client machines running a Puppet agent.

I have generated a module, Validated its syntax to find no errors, neither in the .pp nor the .erb template files, and have gone through Red Hat Satellite's process of creating the module archive, Uploading, Publishing and Promoting that module; but I can't figure out why its not getting applied to the client machines.  Even after a puppet run is executed!

Thanks for any help and direction anyone can provide me.

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Warron French

[Dan White]

I will take a crack at this as I am working with Satellite and Puppet in the same environment.

First of all, the Puppet inside of Satellite is way back at version 3.something, so many newer Puppet technical tips will not work.

About answering your question, start here:

https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/3.8/lang_node_definitions.html

A node definition or node statement is a block of Puppet code that will only be included in one node’s catalog. This feature allows you to assign specific configurations to specific nodes.

Node statements are an optional feature of Puppet. They can be replaced by or combined with an external node classifier, or you can eschew both and use conditional statements with facts to classify nodes.

Unlike more general conditional structures, node statements only match nodes by name. By default, the name of a node is its certname (which defaults to the node’s fully qualified domain name).

https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/3.8/modules_fundamentals.html#using-modules

Modules are how Puppet finds the classes and defined types it can use — it automatically loads any class or defined type stored in its modules. Within a manifest or from an external node classifier (ENC), any of these classes or defined types can be declared by name.

The Red Hat Satellite Puppet Guide does not really discuss setting up nodes.  It seems to focus on how Satellite can manage the Puppet modules.

 

Dan White | d_e_...@icloud.com
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[warron.french]

Dan, thank you for that feedback.  It actually did educate me; however, (a week later from me) I learned this morning what had happened.

Neither agent was properly checking in.  1 due to NetworkManager problems on a RHEL6 system, and the other the Puppet Agent service wasn't enabled to run as a daemon, so it only checked in at reboots.  Arrrrgh!

Stupid little things like this drive me bonkers.

Thank you Dan for taking the time to articulate a response.

Sincerely,

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Warron French

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