How come data is not coming from hiera yaml file?

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Hi,

I am using Puppet Enterprise 3.7.2 and on one of my nodes I create the file:

[root@vii-osc4-mgmt-001 ~]# cat /etc/profile.d/POD_prefix.sh 
export FACTER_pod_prefix=vii-osc4

Then I rebooted that node and logged back in and verified that the FACTERpodprefix gets set and facter pod_prefix outputs the expected value.

[root@vii-osc4-mgmt-001 ~]# env | grep FACTER_pod_prefix
FACTER_pod_prefix=vii-osc4
[root@vii-osc4-mgmt-001 ~]# facter pod_prefix
vii-osc4

On my PE 3.7 Puppet master I created the file /var/lib/hiera/vii-osc4.yaml. I created the /var/lib/hiera/vii-osc4.yaml from the /var/lib/hiera/defaults.yaml file that I had been using like so:

# cp /var/lib/hiera/defaults.yaml /var/lib/hiera/vii-osc4.yaml

This file has a bunch of class parameter values. For example there is this line in the file:

controller_vip_name: vii-osc4.example.com

Then I changed my hiera.yaml file to look like this:

[root@osc4-ppt-001 ~]# cat /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml
---
:backends:
  - yaml
:hierarchy:
  - "%{pod_prefix}"
  - defaults
  - "%{clientcert}"
  - "%{environment}"
  - global

:yaml:
# datadir is empty here, so hiera uses its defaults:
# - /var/lib/hiera on *nix
# - %CommonAppData%\PuppetLabs\hiera\var on Windows
# When specifying a datadir, make sure the directory exists.
  :datadir:

Then I restarted my pe-httpd service like so (RHEL7):

# systemctl restart pe-httpd

Then I make a small change to the /var/lib/hiera/vii-osc4.yaml for example I change the line ...

controller_vip_name: vii-osc4.example.com

... to ...

controller_vip_name: VII-osc4.example.com

But when I run puppet agent -t --noop on my node, vii-osc4-mgmt-001, I do not see the change that I expected to see. If I make the change in the /var/lib/hiera/defaults.yaml and then run puppet agent -t --noop on my node I do see the expected changs. What am I doing wrong here?