[Labs-l] displaying puppet status for each host

Petr Bena benapetr at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 10:21:02 UTC 2014


so sad it's all written in ruby... it uses so much RAM it's unusable
on systems with low ram :/

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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