Thank you for the answers. I have few follow up questions. If the Dashboard is being deprecated what is the Puppet Enterprise Console? Are these not the same? Am I misusing terminology? If the Puppet Enterprise Console have a different interaction with the site.pp file?
On Friday, January 11, 2013 1:09:14 PM UTC-5, Jo wrote: > > Really quick answer: there's no interaction between Dashboard and Site.pp > that I'm aware of. Think of the Dashboard as a place to visually display > puppet reports. > > This is functionality where you can define things in the Dashboard and use > that as an ENC in your puppet manifests. So Site.pp could learn from > Dashboard, but there's no way for Site.pp to inform the Dashboard. If you > really want it to show up there, then you need to define it all in the > Dashboard and then reconfigure Puppet to use the Dashboard as an ENC. > > Google: "puppet dashboard ENC" > > Post-Note: keep in mind that PuppetLabs has deprecated the Dashboard and > won't be doing any future development, so this may not be a good investment > of your time. > > On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Art wrote: > > I have a few questions on how the Dashboard and site.pp file work together > and would appreciate any help that could be given. First a little about my > setup. I am using the Learning Puppet VM provided by the Puppet Labs > website. I have copied it 3 times to create a configuration of 1 master > and 2 agents. The master and agents all show up in the Dashboard and I can > get responses from them using the Live Management tools on the Dashboard as > well as using the command line tools. I have created some basic modules > following various examples in books and the Puppet website. Now for the > questions: > > 1. Currently modules I have created and assigned to nodes using the > site.pp file are not shown on the Dashboard. Is this normal or should the > Dashboard be picking them up? > 2. Modules I assign to nodes though the Dashboard do not show up in the > site.pp file. Is this normal? Where does the Dashboard save assigned > modules, if not in the site.pp file? > 3. Which system takes precedence? Does the site.pp file override what is > on the Dashboard? Does the Dashboard override the site.pp file? Do they > work in conjunction or does only the Dashboard apply when Puppet is run > through the Dashboard and the site.pp apply then Puppet is run thought the > command line. > > Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Art > > -- > 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/-/NJBpUPiGh8AJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet > projects. > > > > -- 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/-/Va7YyOvLkyIJ. 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.
