I am not sure if this will answer your question, but have you looked at the yaml files to be found under /var/lib/puppet/reports/ on the Puppet Master ?
Changes can be found by searching for "changed: true" , "out_of_sync: true", and/or "change_count: ?" where the "?" is NOT zero. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Portabella" <david.portabe...@gmail.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:54:03 AM 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. 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7e4a2aa2-2bd2-4311-81c2-8f7e4bd12a5b%40googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1032688657.4748204.1385485436549.JavaMail.root%40sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
