[Labs-l] displaying puppet status for each host

Petr Bena benapetr at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 09:45:28 UTC 2014


Ok, can we have this on labs?

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Simon Walker <simon at stwalkerster.co.uk> wrote:
> Puppet Dashboard ( http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/dashboard ) does
> that for you :)
>
> Simon (stwalkerster)
>
>
> On 30 January 2014 09:06, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is something I am now trying to set up on my own servers but it
>> would be useful on labs too.
>>
>> I recently started using puppet on my servers too (I like it, unlike
>> on labs where I rather hate it - because using puppet when you need to
>> wait weeks / months for every simple config change to get merged and
>> applied is true nightmare of every sysadmin), however what I am having
>> troubles with now, is how to check what the puppet status of each node
>> is, other than sshing there and checking puppet agent logs.
>>
>> Is there some nice web GUI or something like that, which would display
>> status of every node, errors, warnings etc. So that I could have easy
>> to reach overview of all nodes managed by puppet? I think this would
>> be extremely helpful on labs as well. Nagios can display puppet
>> freshness, but that isn't very much.
>>
>> Imagine a nagios-like website where you would have a list of all nodes
>> maintained by puppet, with detail configuration information, which
>> manifests are used on each node and if they were successfully applied,
>> when etc. Is there anything like that? Can we set it up on labs? Can
>> someone tell me how to do that or link me to some resources? Thanks
>>
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