What we want is not more complexity, but more simplicity!
I could go into
puppet config print reportdir
and then to its
/var/lib/puppet/reports
then to the host directories of interest and grep out message.
But that seems a very sorry state of affairs.
Puppetmasters speak UP!
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:57:48 AM UTC-8, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Portabella" <david.po...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> > To: puppet...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>
> > 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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