On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Forrie <for...@gmail.com> wrote: > In our department, we recently bought an install of HP's SIM agent -- it's > some hacky configuration reporting and management platform that also > facilitates firmware updates, etc. I don't care for it. > > For one, it requires root logins, but it also has agents that report -- it > also may have the ability to change the system. > > My boss is looking for information that is presented in a GUI and easily > reportable. I'm thinking Facter is a good candidate here - we can tell it > what version of software (SSH, etc), OS, etc. But, it's all command-line. > I'm wondering if there is (or if someone is working on) a web-based GUI > that can report these statistics (we don't need the overhead of something > like puppet-dashboard). > > And for misc things, we can always write custom facts. Of course, this > would only apply to systems that are running puppet. We have others that > are not. > > I've seen some other hacks out there that do different types of reporting > - if there's some better approach (open source), that would be great to > know about. >
While its not limited to inventory only, Foreman [1] can generate pretty looking graphs, and show you all of your facts (including custom) and the ability to search and feed that to any external service via a simple api. You can disable most of foreman functionality, and simply get facts (and maybe puppet reports if you are interested in puppet state and not just inventory) without all of the other nice features (enc classifications, provisioning, vm, cloud etc). Hope this helps, Ohad [1] - http://theforeman.org > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/7L0fdmA0VNIJ. > 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.
