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exec with above command as onlyif should do it

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anyone knows where I can find free puppet practice tests? preferably as pdf

It doesn’t work that way with Puppet exams

There are no “question dumps” or anything like that.  If anyone made those, they would forfeit their certification.

<@U7G9NK5FF> not dumps but just similar questions, for practicing

That's something that puppet can do via facter/custom facts, but it isn't the core value of Puppet.   The core is actually setting and maintaining configurations on those systems (so your team's authentication configurations etc would be centrally managed)

Makes sense. I'm not looking to enforce configurations (well maybe in certain limited scenarios). The bulk would be just collecting and warehousing the data for consumption.

So, I'd say facter could do it, but are you looking to be constantly collecting the info, or just as a job that runs?

if it's just a job that would connect out and update that data say once a month or once a day, I'd look at bolt, ansible, or even fabric over puppet (they all collect system facts and have ways to gather information that could be aggregated.)  Puppet is nice because of the puppetdb integration,  but it's pretty overkill for just data gathering

Not constantly collecting but yea something on an interval: weekly or monthly or the like. I wouldn't own the end environments so it would have to be egress only. Ok, i'll look into those. It does need to be "agent" based due to my statement above so ansible probably wouldn't work there. Thanks for the input.

agent only makes it harder, do you have service now or some other itsm system already?

We do but it's complicated. We're basically a software vendor that packages a system up and install it on customer hardware. The software doesn't have a built in way to track the system, application, and usage information. The business wants more on-going visibility into that area and came to me since i'm in the "MSP" branch of the company. Weird situation, but still haha.

i thought of facts as a potential way to collect this info, store it in puppetdb and feed that into our existing CMDB to make it more robust and accurate

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Is there anyway to do an include with a wildcard?  something include foo::plugin::*

you need to provide some information about the systems

centos 7 for the OS, install by the official packages

do you set `-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=` for the puppetservers?

how many jruby instances/cpu cores/memory/Xms/xmx/nodes/resources do you have?

and in big environments, setting the codecache option i mentioned to 2G fixes 95% of the problems

I just set to 1G : I have 8 jruby instance and the tunning guide say 1G :slightly_smiling_face:

Ok I was persuaded that java was update but ... 1.8

thanks for the informations, I go upgrade java and put the cache :slightly_smiling_face:

The puppetserver package doesn't manage java if it's already installed (8 or 11)

And it's not jruby 1.9 mandatory on puppet 7 ?

you mean jruby 9k? I think that's the default in puppetserver 7

the rpm look like link to java 1.8 ... I can't remove it

I restart one server on java 11 and with enable cache

it look like : I deploy it on all server currently :slightly_smiling_face:

thanks for the review : it help me a lot :slightly_smiling_face:

I would use puppet to manage puppetserver, instead of doing it manually

See the `theforeman-puppet` module at <https://forge.puppet.com/theforeman/puppet?src=slack&amp;channel=puppet>

I use puppet to manage my puppet servers :slightly_smiling_face:

the module would have installed proper java and set good arguments

load_puppet.png

It look better now :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi is there documentation available to see what code is deprecated from puppet 3 -&gt; 7? I was looking in the puppet docs and couldn't find any relevant information other then puppet settings, but not code.

Search for puppet 3 -&gt; puppet 4 changes, this migration was major challenge for us. there rest were mostly infrastructure related changes, not language wise

Hey folks! Running into weird issue with max_files:
`Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: no parameter named 'max_files'`

puppetserver-6.19.0-1.el7.noarch
puppet-agent-6.27.1-1.el7.x86_64

max_files was introduced in 6.23.0, so should work, right?

not me <https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy/blob/master/manifests/tftp.pp#L21>

Would need to know more details on where exactly you’re seeing that error message, and under what conditions.
You sure the `puppet-agent` version is above 6.23.0?

i sent my versions above. And what do you mean by ‘under what conditions’? That’s agent on the puppetmaster, it stopped working after latest puppet forge module upgrade (when they added max_files)

Since the error occurs on the server during compilation, you'll need to make sure the puppet-agent package on the server is 6.23.0 or later and that puppetserver has been reloaded or restarted