First time Puppet user, need installation assistance

[J Neitzey]

Hoping to get Puppet to work to kick off usage of Simian/Munki, which I am also in the process of learning. I want to use Puppet to distribute the Simian certificates for the computers.

When installing the Enterprise Puppet on a Mac server, I get hung up running the installer. I tried suppling an example answer file in /answers, as shown in the Mac installer webinar that Puppet did, but I got the same result.

co-munki:tmp admin$ cd puppet-enterprise-3.1.1-el-6-x86_64

co-munki:puppet-enterprise-3.1.1-el-6-x86_64 admin$ ls

LICENSE.txt support

README.markdown supported_platforms

VERSION tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.12etvR

answers tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.C35oi5

db_import_export.rake tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.ghpWfS

erb tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.mOUoJr

gpg tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.sGArx9

modules tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.thJCEH

noask tmp.puppet-enterprise-installer.uQhXb3

packages util

puppet-enterprise-installer utilities

puppet-enterprise-uninstaller

co-munki:puppet-enterprise-3.1.1-el-6-x86_64 admin$ ./puppet-enterprise-installer

./utilities: line 172: [: /var/folders/7k/lnz61c0j649g9dsmtz2pmdsr0000gn/T/-d.3Wjpv5z0: binary operator expected

awk: invalid -v option

========================================================================

awk: invalid -v option

co-munki:puppet-enterprise-3.1.1-el-6-x86_64 admin$ 

I'm not sure what the awk is for. 

If anyone can offer assistance, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Peter Bukowinski]

You're likely seeing that error because Mac OS is not a supported platform for Puppet Enterprise. Supported platforms are listed here: http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/requirements. You'll need to use Puppet Open Source.

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Peter Bukowinski

[J Neitzey]

I downloaded Puppet 2.7.x from http://puppetlabs.com/misc/download-options.

This is just a package installer.

I don't see Mac Enterprise to download any where. Is that the correct installation?

[Peter Bukowinski]

Yes, either the 2.7.x or the 3.x version is the one you want.

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Peter

[J Neitzey]

I installed the 2.7.x version package. Am I supposed to be able to go to an internal server website now and see the console? 

I'm guessing now that the video webinar is not a Mac.

http://puppetlabs.com/webinars/special-topic-using-puppet-mac-management

[Peter Bukowinski]

Correct. In the video, the puppet master uses Puppet Enterprise on a Linux VM. If you want to install the puppet master on a Mac, you'll need to use the open source version and you'll also have to install and configure puppet dashboard (https://github.com/sodabrew/puppet-dashboard).

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Peter

[J Neitzey]

Reading the git page this is just way over my head. I'm going to have to pass on all this I guess. We are a very small IT team and Simian/Munki/Puppet just doesn't seem like the way to go for us.

Thanks for the assistance. Maybe I'll come back to it another time.