Puppet logs to syslog so why not setup an alias that just runs "grep puppet /var/log/messages". The log file may differ between distributions (daemon.log for Debian), but this generally suffices for me.
On 23 August 2010 00:20, Carl.caum <carl.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could always have a script that queries the puppetmaster or whatever your > report server is. I'd just use https. Have some cgi script that grabs the > latest yaml file for the requesting host and then returns it. The requesting > script on the client can then parse it and do whatever with it. You could get > crazy and cache the report locally but you'd need some way of dirtying it > after each puppet run. > I don't think there's any security implications in that. You shouldn't have > any sensitive data in your reports unless you log the output of Execs that > contain passwords. > > On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Chris <sinl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Is there a way to parse the yaml reports on locally on the puppet >> clients. What I'd like to offer our sysadmins is a command that will >> give them some info when the last puppetrun was and whether anything >> has changed. This could be included in .profile/.bashrc. We have an >> environment where admins look after a their "own" machines. And it is >> new that something like puppet ist allowed to interfer with "their" >> systems so we are slowly getting used to the new situation. I do hope >> that we will eventually move to a centralized reporting UI. We're just >> not that far yet. >> >> >> Thanks for any help >> >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
