Puppet Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template .erb

When you are creating and defining new template, Puppet use it to parse the file in the agent server but sometimes you might misspelled/right wrong config which leads to throwing error on puppet agent.

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One of the error which i received is “Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template context.erb:” and i found the root cause of the error, so thought of sharing..

If you are getting the same error as below :

[root@webapp007 conf]# puppet agent --test
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to parse template context.erb:
Filepath: /var/lib/puppet/templates/context.erb
Line: 38
Detail: uninitialized constant Puppet::Parser::TemplateWrapper::VMS_USER
at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/smart.pp:140 on node webapp007
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

Reason : Puppet doesnot support ALLCAPS variable in puppet templates
Solution : Change ALLCAPS variable to lower case variable

In this case : VMS_USER to vms_user

and thats it …..once you change the varibale – Puppet will happily run after that

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