Identifying nodes where the Puppet daemon is enabled or disabled📍

The Puppet agent daemon is disabled on some of your nodes. You'd like to know which nodes are enabled and which nodes are disabled.

Version and installation information

Puppet version: 4.0 to 6.0

Solution

Identify which nodes are enabled and which nodes are disabled by a running task from the support_tasks module.

Before you begin: Install the puppetlabs-support_tasks module. To use the tasks in the puppetlabs-support_tasks module with Puppet, install Bolt on a workstation.

Learn more about:

• Installing modules using a Puppetfile
• Running tasks with Bolt
• The support_tasks module

Follow these steps to run the task:

1. On the command line, create a file called inventory.txt with a list of the nodes you'd like to check. For example:

           winrm://node1-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node2-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node3-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node4-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node5-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node6-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           winrm://node7-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node8-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node9-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node10-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node11-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node12-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net
           ssh://node13-oss-env.platform9.puppet.net

2. Create a list of disabled nodes in a file (nodefile.txt) by using Bolt to run the task st0285_find_disabled_agents. For example:

   bolt task run support_tasks::st0285_find_disabled_agents --targets @inventory.txt c --private_key <PATH TO KEY, IF REQUIRED> | grep Finished | awk '{printf "%s%s",sep,$NF; sep=",\n"}' > nodefile.txt

Example output

The output for enabled nodes contains an error so that you can sort enabled and disabled nodes:

Started on pe-201813-master.platform9.puppet.net ...
Failed on pe-201813-master.platform9.puppet.net
  Error: Task finished with exit-code 1
  STDOUT:
    Puppet agent is enabled

Job failed. 1 node failed, 0 nodes skipped, 0 nodes succeeded.
Duration: 0 sec

The output for a disabled node:

Started on pe-201813-master.platform9.puppet.net ...
Finished on node pe-201813-master.platform9.puppet.net
  STDOUT:
    Puppet agent is disabled

Job completed. 1/1 nodes succeeded.
Duration: 0 sec