True, this seems to be the easiest way to do it. Thanks On 23 Aug., 00:59, Tim Sharpe <t...@sharpe.id.au> wrote: > 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 > >> athttp://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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
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