On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:35 AM, hai wu <haiwu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Tim. > > The problem is if you have multiple puppetmaster servers with > different Puppet[:reportdir] on different local drives, thus for each > node report yaml file, you would have to go to each puppetmaster > server to retrieve the latest report file for that node, which is not > ideal, as the copy is already stored in puppet dashboard, the problem > is puppet dashboard would purge the file right away after loading it > into database, and there's no way to retrieve that via API. >
If you would consider using Foreman [1], there is a very simple api to consume that state, e.g. https://server/hosts/fqdn/reports/last A lot of people use that along side with monitoring tools (such as nagios) to generate alerts etc. cheers, Ohad > > On 6/29/12, Tim Mooney <tim.moo...@ndsu.edu> wrote: > > In regard to: [Puppet Users] puppet node report, hai wu said (at 3:04am > > on...: > > > >> Is there a way to download latest node report log from puppet dashboard? > > > > There's a way to do just about anything, but before you write some > > complicated web screen-scraping code to get the report from the web > > interface of dashboard, consider just enabling additional report backends > > and instead pulling the data from there. > > > > There was a very good blog post about "when puppet reports" a few weeks > > ago, check it out for more information on other reporting backends that > > are available and how you might go about developing your own (perhaps > > one for a database). See > > > > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/when-puppet-reports-part-1/ > > > > Note also there's a part 2 that you'll want to check out. > > > > The most straightforward method would probably be to enable the yaml > > backend and just pull the data from there. > > > > Tim > > -- > > Tim Mooney > tim.moo...@ndsu.edu > > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 > (Voice) > > Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) > > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
