On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Douglas Garstang >> <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Douglas Garstang >> >> <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to find a programmatic way to determine if the result of a >> >> > puppetrun was ok. Rather than scraping /var/log/messages, is there >> >> > another >> >> > way to determine that a puppet run completed with errors and how long >> >> > it >> >> > took to run? Is that state maintained on the client's disk somewhere? >> >> >> >> What version of Puppet? >> > >> > Nigel, >> > 2.6.1. >> > >> >> >> >> How are you running the agent? out of cron? or as a daemon? >> >> >> > >> > Agent is running as a daemon. I'm running puppetrun --host=<host> on the >> > puppetmaster. >> > >> >> >> >> If you're running it out of cron, there's a —detailed-exitcodes >> >> argument you can use to determine the client state. >> >> >> >> Have you looked at dumping a report at the end of your run and whether >> >> that reports the info you want? >> >> >> >> >> > Not yet... can I do that if I use puppetrun on the puppetmaster? >> >> I'm not much of an expert in puppetrun as we don't use it here. >> >> What's the end goal? Do you want centralized reports that you can >> analyze? or you just want to know whether the run had errors with >> ad-hoc puppetruns ? >> > > Nigel, the end goal is to not have to not have to log into the client every > time I run puppet to see if puppet applied the updates correctly. I must be > doing it a few hundred times a day and it's getting a bit old. > Doug.
It really sounds like you want to set up centralized reporting. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/reporting.html You may or may not find it easier to set up Puppet Dashboard or Foreman to give you a visual view of the reports, or you may simply wish to do some simple scans of the report yaml files on the reportserver for errors. -- 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.
