Generating reports
If you're managing a lot of machines, Puppet's reporting facility can give you some valuable information on what's actually happening out there.
How to do it...
To enable reports, just add this to a client's puppet.conf: within the [main] or [agent] sections:
report = true
Tip
In recent versions (greater than 3.0) of Puppet, report = true is the default setting.
How it works...
With reporting enabled, Puppet will generate a report file, containing data such as:
- Date and time of the run
- Total time for the run
- Log messages output during the run
- List of all the resources in the client's manifest
- Whether Puppet changed any resources, and how many
- Whether the run succeeded or failed
By default, these reports are stored on the node at /var/lib/puppet/reports in a directory named after the hostname, but you can specify a different destination using the reportdir option. You can create your own scripts to process these reports (which are in the standard YAML format...
