On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:42 PM, hai wu <haiwu...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is good to know. It seems foreman has its own report plugin > script (foreman.rb), so it should not be a problem if I use both at > the same time for reporting purposes. Puppet dashboard uses reporturl, > as long as foreman would keep its current plugin (reports = foreman), > there should be no conflict of using both, correct? It seems foreman > has a new feature using reporturl, I won't be able to use that as > reporturl is currently pointing to puppet dashboard .. > > yeah, it doesn't really matter, you can use either of them regardless.
Ohad > On 6/30/12, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > -- > 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.
