#theforeman

Morning all, getting this error when trying to manually run foreman tasks http://pastebin.com/AQsxuziP related to that I filed yesterday I think.. http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/12352

it would need to be run from /usr/share/foreman, plus there are a bunch of other environment variables that the usual init script sets

I created a /etc/foreman/config/logging.yaml (copy out of /etc/foreman/logging.yaml) and ran the command, it seems to be happy now.

hrmf, and it still pukes when trying to delete a host that has chef params attached to it. Dernit.

I-use-foreman: did you try the "service foreman-tasks restart"?

service actually doesn't invoke it. I have to run it manually... this is on an ubuntu 14.04 server... it's like it's not registered as a service....

mmoll I thought we had service script for foreman tasks in debs? ^

do you have them in 92? And they're just missing in 1.10rc2?

mhulan: we do, sorry ENOTIME at the moment

ruby-foreman-tasks

ah there we go.

mmoll: thanks, now worries

I do see that service name.

I-use-foreman: yeah, sorry, so after restart it should trigger the pending task that blocks new deletions

I-use-foreman: but I wonder how it got to this state in the first place

ok it wasn't even started at all. Let's see if this deletes... alrighty. :crosses-fingers:

Not sure, it's a bog standard ubuntu install. With a fresh install of 1.10rc2 on it, and forman_chef 0.2.0...

and heyt now the host is gone.

Hooray.

I-use-foreman: cool!

so should ruby-foreman-tasks be running by default at startup? Or just invoked as needed? Not sure why it got like this?

not sure what's better in this case, but definitely it should be documented in installation steps

I-use-foreman: what steps did you follow, foreman_chef manual?

yes. With some guessing tossed in here and there.

I still actually can't get it to download the opscode chef installer bit, or copy the validation.pem over, but it's creating the client/rv under /etc/chef on clients (also ubuntu 14.04) which is good.

er client.rb

I-use-foreman: I'm happy to improve instructions if you tell me what's missing

I-use-foreman: so did you setup all parameters as stated in http://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_chef/0.2/... ?

Let me figure it out, and I can submit up a writeup of what you might want to add in, etc. I'm still new in this foreman_chef process, but I think I can nail it down.

I-use-foreman: awesome

using the installer ought to enable the ruby-foreman-tasks service at boot

I did use the installer, not sure why it didn't enable it at restart, and I've tossed a few restarts at it since...

Dominic: seems we miss exception for deb systems? https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/bl...

oh wait, it's there in params.pp

yeah, name is passed

anyway we should probably document manual setup for users just installing packages only

I'm sure part of the pain of what I have is an older chef install, plus ubuntu, etc. But I think I can fully end-end provision if I rip up the templates a up and get it right.

mhulan: that would be awesome :-)

since we use salt instead of puppet, having all the puppet stuff coming with the installer is a litte annoying :-)

has anything changed in the windows smart-proxy between 1.8 and 1.9?

felskrone1: you can foreman-installer --no-enable-puppet :-)

actually I'll amend that former puppet user, and I still like it, it's just not my current thing that I can use.

felskrone1: but I think this will get much better with scenarios support in installer (should be in 1.11)

mhulan: true but then i have to do all the ssl stuff and im not too familiar with foreman yet to be able to to that

felskrone1: I see, fair point

i actually tried and failed :-)

currently i provision our foreman-server with salt by templating the foreman-installer-answers file and running the installer with salt, which is kinda dirty

does the 1.9 windows smart proxy install successfully as a service?

i just got a smart-proxy configured on my windows 2012 dhcp server and when i try and import subnets i see an error that says "loaderror - cannot load such file -- win32/open3"

discr33t: what ruby versiondo you have?

it changed between versions

Claer: i had to do a gem install win32-open3-19 and everything worked

Claer: i'm running 1.9 for the smart-proxy

ok

Claer: i guess i missed something in the instructions or a dependency didn't resolve

normally it should work when you execute bundle install

Claer: ok, might just be something i did out of order then or something. . .

I think there are still some open PRs to fix that

How do I get foreman to recognise puppet enviroment inheritance, I have tried adding [development] modulepath = /etc/puppet/environments/development/modules:/etc/puppet/environments/common manifestdir = /etc/puppet/environments/development/manifests config_version = [production] modulepath = /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules:/etc/puppet/environments/common manifestdir = /etc/puppet/enviro

to puppet.conf

I have also tried setting the modules_basedir to the common and environment specific for development and production

that ought to work, but it's much easier now with directory environments rather than config envs

I started off with Directories, but I could not work out how common could be inherited by production and development, it kept appearing as three seprate environments