On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Christopher Lee <chr...@spiralweb.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am playing with Puppet Dashboard and I have a few questions.
>
> First, as we start using puppet we are planning on running puppet agent
> from cron or via mcollective runs in --noop mode every few hours as an
> audit function.  If anything is changed we would like to have it show up in
> Puppet Dashboard so we can alarm on it and then manually find out why it was
> changed before reverting back.  I noticed dashboard only reports "green"
> good run, no errors or "yellow" changes where made.  If I run in noop it
> returns green because no changes where made but I would like to see it tell
> me changes needed to be made but where not.  Does this make since?  Is there
> away to get this functionality?
>

Chris, we're actually working on this exact issue in the next few days,
showing "Pending" changes in a much more obvious manner with noop/simulation
runs.

We'll have this ready within the next two Dashboard point releases.


>
> Second, we have two data centers and two puppet masters.  I would like to
> run one dashboard.  I can see from reporting this not to be a big deal but
> if I start using dashboard as an external node provider will I have issues.
>  Looking at the settings.yml file for dashboard the setting seem to be very
> specific to one master.  Am I going to start running into issue trying to
> use one dashboard with two puppetmaster (more more in the future).
>

As far as an external node classifier goes, you really shouldn't have
problems with multiple masters, both configured to use Dashboard as their
ENC.


-- 
Nigel Kersten
Product, Puppet Labs
@nigelkersten

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