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Puppet Troubleshooting: Compiling Catalog, Locating a Cached Catalog
source link: https://blog.jakubholy.net/2012/10/17/puppet-where-to-find-the-cached-catalog-on-client/
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Puppet Troubleshooting: Compiling Catalog, Locating a Cached Catalog
October 17, 2012
Few troubleshooting tips for Puppet.
The compilation uses locally cached facts, typically in
You can try the catalog manually on the node (though retrieving files via puppet://puppet/... will fail). You will first need delete the leading lines with messages/warnings from the compilation process, if any (such as "[warning] ..."):
Where to Find the Cached Catalog On Client
Puppet Agent caches its compiled (text/Ruby) catalog under its $vardir, for example Puppet 0.25.x stores it into/var/lib/puppet/client_yaml/catalog/<hostname>.yaml. It might be useful when troubleshooting.
Compiling Catalog Manually
You can compile the catalog for a particular node manually on the Puppet Master. Ex.:puppetmasterd --compile mynode.example.com > mynode_catalogThe compilation uses locally cached facts, typically in
/var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/<hostname>.yaml .You can try the catalog manually on the node (though retrieving files via puppet://puppet/... will fail). You will first need delete the leading lines with messages/warnings from the compilation process, if any (such as "[warning] ..."):
puppet --noop --apply mynode_catalog
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