Problem:
We have a newly set up Foreman server. Yesterday after ironing out our cert issues, I got facts to upload to the server using Puppet, with sudo -u puppet /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb --push-facts. After this, current facts from all of our hosts were visible in the Foreman console. Great.
But today, the facts have not been updated. The puppet-agent service is running on all of the hosts, and I can run puppet agent --test on all of them successfully, but when I run sudo -u puppet /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb --push-facts on the Foreman server again, the facts are not updated – they still show the last update from yesterday, including facts that should have changed like uptime_seconds. There is no error shown on the console from the command.
But if I specify a host to update with sudo -u puppet /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/node.rb myhost.mydomain --push-facts, I get the error:
No such file or directory @ rb_file_s_size - /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/puppetserver/yaml/facts/myhost.mydomain.yaml
And indeed /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/puppetserver/yaml/facts is empty. Thinking the contents of that directory might somehow have been erased, I checked our backups, which showed that that directory has never contained any files.
If that’s the case, why did facts get pushed the first time? And more importantly, what do I need to do to get it working again?
Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman 3.11
Katello 4.13
Puppet server 7.17
Distribution and version:
Alma Linux 8.10