Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/pull/170
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
I know this is an old thread, but I have this interesting bug. If puppet is recreating the dashboard.json file, and it has dashboard_user => false and dashboard_password => false, they get set in the json file as “false” which disables access. Easy enough fix, but breaks the automation. 
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Kyle Anderson wrote:
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo moj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
Heh, yea.
Does it actually disable access?
Now that the PR is accepted, setting those to the empty string should remove it: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/sensu_dashboard_config/json.rb#L59
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Morris Jones mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
I know this is an old thread, but I have this interesting bug. If puppet is recreating the dashboard.json file, and it has dashboard_user => false and dashboard_password => false, they get set in the json file as “false” which disables access. Easy enough fix, but breaks the automation.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Kyle Anderson wrote:
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo moj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
Unfortunately setting it to the empty string means a puppet manifest is executed on ever puppet agent run. That was the first message in the thread. Using false prevents the repetitive execution and restarts, but only after the user/password has been disabled with empty string. 
Mojo
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Kyle Anderson kyle@xkyle.com wrote:
Heh, yea.
Does it actually disable access?
Now that the PR is accepted, setting those to the empty string should remove it: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/sensu_dashboard_config/json.rb#L59
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Morris Jones mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
I know this is an old thread, but I have this interesting bug. If puppet is recreating the dashboard.json file, and it has dashboard_user => false and dashboard_password => false, they get set in the json file as “false” which disables access. Easy enough fix, but breaks the automation.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Kyle Anderson wrote:
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo moj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
Can you confirm that your version of the puppet module has that line in it?
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/pull/170
Should have fixed it so that it converged when set to empty string.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Mojo mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately setting it to the empty string means a puppet manifest is executed on ever puppet agent run. That was the first message in the thread. Using false prevents the repetitive execution and restarts, but only after the user/password has been disabled with empty string.
Mojo
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Kyle Anderson kyle@xkyle.com wrote:
Heh, yea.
Does it actually disable access?
Now that the PR is accepted, setting those to the empty string should remove it: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/sensu_dashboard_config/json.rb#L59
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Morris Jones mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
I know this is an old thread, but I have this interesting bug. If puppet is recreating the dashboard.json file, and it has dashboard_user => false and dashboard_password => false, they get set in the json file as “false” which disables access. Easy enough fix, but breaks the automation.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Kyle Anderson wrote:
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo moj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo
Quite right, my copy of the sensu puppet module is older than that pull request. Thank you!
Best regards,
Mojo
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Kyle Anderson kyle@xkyle.com wrote:
Can you confirm that your version of the puppet module has that line in it?
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/pull/170
Should have fixed it so that it converged when set to empty string.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Mojo mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately setting it to the empty string means a puppet manifest is executed on ever puppet agent run. That was the first message in the thread. Using false prevents the repetitive execution and restarts, but only after the user/password has been disabled with empty string.
Mojo
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Kyle Anderson kyle@xkyle.com wrote:
Heh, yea.
Does it actually disable access?
Now that the PR is accepted, setting those to the empty string should remove it: https://github.com/sensu/sensu-puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/sensu_dashboard_config/json.rb#L59
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Morris Jones mojo.la@gmail.com wrote:
I know this is an old thread, but I have this interesting bug. If puppet is recreating the dashboard.json file, and it has dashboard_user => false and dashboard_password => false, they get set in the json file as “false” which disables access. Easy enough fix, but breaks the automation.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:24:12 PM UTC-7, Kyle Anderson wrote:
As a workaround you can set it to false (the bool):
dashboard_user => false,
dashboard_password => false,
And that will allow it to converge without setting a user or password.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mojo moj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
In my puppet sensu config, I’m setting dashboard_user and dashboard_password to an empty string, which effectively turns off the dashboard auth. (I can wrap auth in nginx.)
However the puppet module notices every time:
user changed ‘’ to ‘’
password changed ‘’ to ‘’
(sensu-dashboard) Triggered ‘refresh’ from 1 events
Anyone have a workaround for that?
Mojo