I use tmz's puppetstatus scripts [1] [2] and they work great for checking the last run time from Nagios. I also have reports setup w/ tagmail to send me anything with "err" in it.
-Doug [1] http://markmail.org/message/m6xi34aljso4w5qq [2] http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/scripts/puppetstatus/ On 11/11/2010 09:09 AM, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering how people here monitor puppet runs on the clients. > For puppet 0.25.x I enabled reporting and then wrote a nagios plugin > to parse the YAML report files that each client returned after a run. > Specifically I was looking for any 'failures' or 'failed_restarts'. > > Unfortunately with 2.6.2 the format of those YAML files has not only > changed but also varies hugely for different hosts depending on how > the run went. Plus the sheer size of these files now means it takes > too long for PyYAML to parse them (even for only 40 odd hosts). > > In fact, I don't understand what the YAML reports are useful for - > they don't appear to realistically be either human or machine > readable. > > Anyway what other approaches are there? I'd like to simply see 2 > things: > 1) If there were any failures during the puppet run on the client > 2) When the last puppet run on each client was (ie. if it was more > than 50 mins ago raise a warning) >
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