Re: Offsite puppet errors

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Orion Poplawski <[email protected]>wrote:

> Looking for suggestions as to how to handle this.  When a user's laptop is
> offsite, it cannot connect to the puppet server so I get the following
> logwatch report:
>
> --------------------- Puppet Begin ------------------------
>
>  Failed runs: 47
>
>  **Unmatched Entries**
>  (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Could not evaluate: getaddrinfo: Name or
> service not known Could not retrieve file metadata for
> puppet://puppet/plugins: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known: 47 Time(s)
>
>  ---------------------- Puppet End -------------------------
>
>
> Which I basically want to ignore.  The full set of puppet logs are:
>
> Jul 25 10:22:48 moa puppet-agent[1404]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Failed
> to
> generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': getaddrinfo: Name or
> service not known
> Jul 25 10:22:48 moa puppet-agent[1404]: (/File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]) Could
> not
> evaluate: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Could not retrieve file
> metadata for puppet://puppet/plugins: getaddrinfo: Name or service not
> known
> Jul 25 10:22:50 moa puppet-agent[1404]: Could not retrieve catalog from
> remote
> server: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
> Jul 25 10:22:50 moa puppet-agent[1404]: Using cached catalog
> Jul 25 10:22:50 moa puppet-agent[1404]: Could not retrieve catalog;
> skipping run
>
> Thoughts?  Perhaps a configuration variable "ignore_failed_connections" or
> some such?
>
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My opinion is that it should be ignored, since it's already printing the
failed runs. Or perhaps the connection failures could be counted and only
printed if $Detail > 5.

- Nathan

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