5 08 2020
We encountered this issue on our HP servers when trying to use the check_hp health check for sensu/nagios. It was also showing a segfault in dmesg when trying to start the hp-health service
Puppet
5 06 2019
This error is time related, to fix it just ntpdate on your server to a time server and run puppet again. ntpdate 0.uk.pool.ntp.org
11 09 2015
I had an issue where cron was running but my command wasn’t working but it worked when I ran it manually.
28 04 2015
The default out of sync duration is the puppet run duration + 5 minutes, as we run the puppet default it makes it 35 minutes. This however means that there are ~15 out of sync hosts at any time that just haven’t ran in an hour which isn’t a huge problem for us.
8 10 2014
The method I used to install the puppet agent on a server via ruby gems, as the client server requires a newer version of ruby than what puppet uses with packages. Your mileage might vary if followed as puppetlabs documentation says “not recommended”!
7 12 2013
This is how I setup MySQL replication with puppet managing the configuration files/install. The MySQL module used is – https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql
18 09 2013
During my puppeting today I encounted the following error when trying to apply a manifest; Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependent Service[nrpe] for File[/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg]
18 09 2013
So I was trying to get something installed with puppet and I encountered this lovely error in the logs;
25 07 2013
It’s fairly simple to add system users with puppet to servers, however I had to do a little bit of googling to find some working examples so I will put it here for future reference.
17 07 2013
I encountered this interesting (at least to me) puppet error when creating server manifests to go with a module; Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with ‘<hostname>’