How to print something when running Puppet client

Question

I want to print out messages and variables when Puppet runs  I saw there are two functions that might help but couldn t really use them  My site pp file   info  running site pp info  debug  running site pp debug    When I run on the client   puppet -t   I don t get those prints

User · Answer

You could go a step further and break into the puppet code using a breakpoint.

http://logicminds.github.io/blog/2017/04/25/break-into-your-puppet-code/

This would only work with puppet apply or using a rspec test. Or you can manually type your code into the debugger console. Note: puppet still needs to know where your module code is at if you haven't set already.

gem install puppet puppet-debugger 
puppet module install nwops/debug
cat > test.pp <<'EOF'
$var1 = 'test'
debug::break()
EOF

Should show something like.

puppet apply test.pp
From file: test.pp
     1: $var1 = 'test'
     2: # add 'debug::break()' where you want to stop in your code
  => 3: debug::break()
1:>> $var1
=> "test"
2:>>

https://www.puppet-debugger.com

User · Answer

If  like me  you don t have access to the puppet master and need to print debug logs to inspect variables on your puppet client machine  you can try writing to a file from your puppet code itself   file     tmp puppet debug log     content   gt  inline template   lt     variable x to s   gt

User · Answer

from the Puppet function documentation  info  Log a message on the server at level info  debug  Log a message on the server at level debug    You have to look a your puppetmaster logfile to find your info debug messages   You may use  notify  The value is    yourvar        to produce some output to your puppet client

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If you want to notify user with different type of messages like information  debug  error  warning  alerts  critical and emergency messages then use    loglevel    metaparameter in puppet resources   With the use of loglevel you can use the same resources for different type of error messages   e g for producing debug messages you can use it as    notify   debug message         loglevel   gt  debug

User · Answer

You can run the client like this      puppet agent --test --debug --noop   with that command you get all the output you can get   excerpt puppet agent help    --test    Enable the most common options used for testing  These are  onetime      verbose    ignorecache    no-daemonize    no-usecacheonfailure      detailed-exitcodes    no-splay   and  show diff     NOTE  No need to include --verbose when you use the --test -t switch  it implies the --verbose as well

User · Answer

That does the task for me  I use that to check vars and display notifications    notify   hello world  var1      Here s the documentation on Puppet website as well  http   docs puppetlabs com learning ordering html notify-and-subscribe

User · Answer

Easier way  use notice  e g notice  foo pp works   or notice  foo

User · Answer

Here is the puppet script with all the available puppet log functions   log levels pp  node default     notice  try to run this script with -v and -d to see difference between log levels     notice  function documentation is available here  http   docs puppetlabs com references latest function html     notice  --------------------------------------------------------------------------      debug  this is debug  visible only with -d or --debug     info  this is info  visible only with -v or --verbose or -d or --debug     alert  this is alert  always visible     crit  this is crit  always visible     emerg  this is emerg  always visible     err  this is err  always visible     warning  and this is warning  always visible     notice  this is notice  always visible      fail will break execution   fail  this is fail  always visible  fail will break execution process        Script output  on puppet 2 7     NB  puppet 3 x colours may alter  all the errors will be printed in red

User · Answer

Just as alternative you may consider using execs     I wouldn t recommend it though   exec    this will output stuff     path        gt    bin     command     gt   echo Hello World      logoutput   gt  true      So when you run puppet you should find some output like so   notice   Stage main   Exec this will output stuff  returns  Hello World  notice   Stage main   Exec this will output stuff  returns  executed successfully notice  Finished catalog run in 0 08 seconds   The first line being logged output

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Have you tried what is on the sample  I am new to this but here is the command  puppet --test --trace --debug  I hope this helps

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