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To manually sign the certificate
<pre>'''#puppetca –sign <certificate CN>'''</pre>
note: it is done in puppet master. To list the requsete certificate, issu the commad
<pre>'''#puppetca –list'''</pre>
5)Puppet receives the signed certificate. Once the puppet receives the certificate, it will start configuration run immediately.
On server, In this case it will be Hongkong.proximity.on.ca
<pre> '''#yum install puppet-server'''</pre>
it will install puppetmaster and puppet on the server which is to be as puppetmaster.
<pre> '''#yum install mysql-server ruby-mysql'''</pre>
<pre> '''#yum install ruby-RRDtool'''</pre>
it will install ruby library.
On client, in this case it will be Ireland.proximity.on.ca
it will install puppet client on the client system.
On the server, Hongkong
<pre>
#ls /etc/puppet
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a) carete sudo.pp, vi /etc/puppet/manifests/class/sudo.pp
<pre>
# /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/sudo.pp
class sudo {
mode => 440, }
}
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b) create site.pp, vi /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
<pre>
# /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
import "classes/*"
include sudo
}
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c) start the puppet master.
<pre>'''#puppetmasterd –mkusers'''</pre>
this option will create the puppet user that is needed.
Once the puppetmaster daemon is stated, it will create the necessary files and folders under /var/lib/puppet.
should have bucket, clientsbucket, facts, reports, ssl, yaml, class.txt, client_yaml, l ib, rrd, state
all the details information about these files and folder will be included in the next blog.
<pre> '''#'''service puppetmaster start'''</pre>
d) start the puppet client.
On the client, Ireland
<pre>'''#puppetd –verbose'''</pre>
when the puppet client daemon starts, it creates the necessary certificate and waits for the certificate to be signed by the puppetmaster.
On the server
<pre>'''#puppetca –list'''</pre>
this will list the all the requested certificate that are to be signed by puppetmaster.
== '''Release 0.2''' ==
'''Functional with file server'''
1) file server configuration: For the the configuration to be saved
'''File server configuration'''
The last release 0.1 was installing the basic puppet installation and gets the puppet working. In the puppet master there should be service that should store and deliver the needed configuration files. Puppet can be act as the file server.
