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Bug #8625

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There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server

Added by Nicolas CHARLES almost 8 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

Status:

Released

Priority:

N/A

Assignee:

Nicolas CHARLES

Category:

Server components

Target version:

4.1.10

Pull Request:

https://github.com/Normation/rudder-p...

Severity:

Minor - inconvenience | misleading | easy workaround

UX impact:

User visibility:

Operational - other Techniques | Technique editor | Rudder settings

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Description

On a Rudder server, there are /var/cfengine/inputs folder, containing initial promises
These files are created by script rudder-init.

I'm not sure why there are there, and what are their goals, so filing this ticket

Related issues 1 (0 open — 1 closed)

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Updated by Jonathan CLARKE over 7 years ago

Status changed from New to Discussion
Assignee set to Nicolas CHARLES

Nicolas CHARLES wrote:

On a Rudder server, there are /var/cfengine/inputs folder, containing initial promises
These files are created by script rudder-init.

I'm not sure why there are there, and what are their goals, so filing this ticket

It is my understanding that a Rudder server serving Windows nodes needs a "CFEngine Enterprise" cf-serverd running, and that that cf-serverd has a hardcoded path to /var/cfengine/inputs in it. That is why this directory is created and populated.

Is my understanding wrong? If so, what promises does the CFEngine Enterprise cf-serverd read, and how do we tell it which directory/file to read from?

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 2.11.23 to 2.11.24

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 2.11.24 to 308

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 308 to 3.1.14

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.14 to 3.1.15

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.15 to 3.1.16

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Updated by Nicolas CHARLES over 7 years ago

When we install the Enterprise agent, we put the initial promises in /var/cfengine/inputs (that's part of the install script)
Once the inventory as been generated, promises in this folder are generated there by the web interface

Maybe the init script of the Enterprise agent could be simply to copy initial promises from /opt/rudder/share/initial-promises ; but always having the promises in /var/cfengine/inputs is pretty confusing

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.16 to 3.1.17

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Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.17 to 3.1.18

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#10

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.18 to 3.1.19

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#11

Updated by Benoît PECCATTE about 7 years ago

Severity set to Minor - inconvenience | misleading | easy workaround
User visibility set to Operational - other Techniques | Technique editor | Rudder settings
Priority set to 15

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#12

Updated by François ARMAND about 7 years ago

Subject changed from There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server to There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server letting inventory believes an enterprise agent is installed
Description updated (diff)

Addind a reference to the inventory error we get in log in the description and amending title to make the ticket searchable.

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#13

Updated by François ARMAND about 7 years ago

Related to Bug #9327: Error on inventory of policy servers: Error when parsing an <RUDDER><AGENT> entry, that agent will be ignored. <- could not parse policy server id (tag POLICY_SERVER_UUID) from specific inventory added

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#14

Updated by François ARMAND about 7 years ago

Subject changed from There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server letting inventory believes an enterprise agent is installed to There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server
Description updated (diff)

So in fact, the part for the inventory message was corrected in ticket #9327. I'm changing back the ticket.

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#15

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.19 to 3.1.20

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#16

Updated by Jonathan CLARKE almost 7 years ago

Status changed from Discussion to New

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#17

Updated by Jonathan CLARKE almost 7 years ago

Assignee deleted (~~Nicolas CHARLES~~)

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#18

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.20 to 3.1.21
Priority changed from 15 to 14

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#19

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 7 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.21 to 3.1.22

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#20

Updated by Benoît PECCATTE almost 7 years ago

Priority changed from 14 to 27

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#21

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 6 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.22 to 3.1.23

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#22

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 6 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.23 to 3.1.24

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#23

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 6 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.24 to 3.1.25

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#24

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 6 years ago

Target version changed from 3.1.25 to 387

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#25

Updated by Nicolas CHARLES over 6 years ago

Status changed from New to In progress
Assignee set to Nicolas CHARLES

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#26

Updated by Nicolas CHARLES over 6 years ago

Status changed from In progress to Pending technical review
Assignee changed from Nicolas CHARLES to Alexis Mousset
Pull Request set to https://github.com/Normation/rudder-packages/pull/1430

PR https://github.com/Normation/rudder-packages/pull/1430

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#27