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> From: "David Portabella" <david.portabe...@gmail.com>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:54:03 PM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] get a *structured* version of the puppet agent output
>
>
>
> puppet agent --verbose shows a verbose output of the changes done by
> puppet, such as:
>
> notice:
> /Stage[main]/Logstash::Config/Logstash::Configdir[agent]/File[/etc/logstash/agent/config]/owner:
> owner changed 'root' to 'logstash'
> notice: /Stage[main]/Varnish/Service[varnish]/ensure: ensure changed
> 'stopped' to 'running'
>
> I'd need to make some analysis about these changes, but it is not trivial
> to correctly parse this output.
The same data is in the reports, a bit better there.
>> require 'puppet'
>> YAML.load_file("/var/lib/puppet/state/last_run_report.yaml").logs.first
=> #<Puppet::Util::Log:0x7f2e3dcbcc68 @source="Puppet", @level=:notice,
@message="Finished catalog run in 0.18 seconds", @time=Thu Nov 21 16:38:42
+0000 2013, @tags=["notice"]>
> is there an option to get an structured version of this output (such as in
> xml or yaml)?
> so that I can make queries such as:
> - list all the files that have changed
> - list all the services that changed from stopped to running.
> ...
>
> yes, i can use sed and the like as a temporal workaround, but I'd need to
> have a robust approach.
>
> option1: maybe there is a tool that correctly parses this output?
> option2: or maybe there is a "puppet agent" equivalent command that
> directly produces a structured output?
>
> otherwise, how much time would it required to implement option2 (i am a
> software developer, and a puppet-user (not currently a puppet-developer)?
>
> Regards,
> David
>
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