Apt-Dater manager and host installed -> hosts.conf empty about puppet-apt_dater HOT 6 CLOSED

Hello,
The hosts.conf file is populated using a script working on file created using exported/collected resources, on the manager node $apt_dater::manager_fragments_dir should contain a file by manged host, do they exist?
When using puppet 4 it is under /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/apt-dater-fragments/, with puppet 3 it should be something like /var/lib/puppet/apt-dater-fragments.
If they exist the final hosts.conf file should be created by the /usr/local/bin/update-apt-dater-hosts script.

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Hello,

this is my result:

[root@puppet apt-dater-fragments]# pwd
/var/lib/puppet/apt-dater-fragments
[root@puppet apt-dater-fragments]# ll
insgesamt 0
[root@puppet apt-dater-fragments]# 

Obviously there are no fragment files saved in this directory. What could be the reason?

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Hi,
Did you enable storedconfigs/puppetdb ? It is required for exported resources, see https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/lang_exported.html for puppet 3.8.
What are the version of puppet and what is the Operating System?

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Hello gwarf,

thanks for your answer. Well, I'm running puppet with foreman. I did not install puppetdb manually.

Is it save to install puppetdb on the same host puppet and foreman is running on?

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I have never tested foreman, so I don't know... You could try to check this: http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/FAQ#How-does-Foreman-work-with-PuppetDB.
One other thing you could try is to add some simple code making use of exported resources, that would allow you to test if they are working and confirm/infirm if it is a bug with this module.
I am only using this code using a standard puppet 4 Open Source installation, but as the code was previously made for puppet3 it should probably still work.

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From http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.1/index.html it seems that you can setup puppetdb with foreman 1.1

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