Foreman can email error reports automatically. (Without having to use the
GUI..) IIRC you can also make it email actions (changes) - if not, it
shouldn't be that hard to add.
We use nagios to check puppet's state file for age - if it is too old,
puppet hasn't run. Between those two, afaict, we're covering basically
everything. And once a day, foreman also emails a status summary
('interesting' hosts - changes, failures, outdated/no report, etc)
Puppet tries to run, finds a problem: Foreman emails the report.
Puppet runs and makes changes, no errors: Do you want email? It'll show on
the 'active hosts' page, and in the nightly summary email.
Puppet doesn't run: Nagios alerts on that host
And FWIW I'm the only sysadmin (also at a startup w/ no dev environment for
puppet) and its really not impossible to get identical servers. (In fact,
our first answer to "wtf is wrong with server21-foo" is "meh, whatever,
trash the vm and recreate it".. Well.. thats first after "lets make sure it
didn't get hacked" of course..) My workload went -way- down once puppet was
working properly (complete manifests) and even more when I got foreman's vm
deployments going.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Douglas Garstang
<doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Executed successfully =
> a) No syntax errors
> b) No dependency errors
> c) No other weird stuff
>
> Just because there are no dependency errors on one system, doesn't mean
> that there won't be dependency errors on another system. No two systems are
> ever identical, so spot checks won't cover all bases.
>
> We're a startup with limited resources, with the typical total lack of
> resources. We don't have the luxury of a dev environment. We have 4 data
> centres, different rules for each, and one is PCI compliant, which is akin
> to having a root canal done every time you touch it. Even if we did, that
> doesn't preclude making sure everything ran ok. It's still needed.
>
> Doug.
>
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