Summary

In this chapter, we covered the most important parts of the Puppet Enterprise Console. We discussed Role-based Access Control, which effectively means creating a user account and assigning a role to it. We learned how to create a user account for Terry the Tester and assign it an Operator role.

Following the Role-based Access Control, we discussed how to create a node group and add a node to it. Once the node was added to the node group, we learned how to use the External Node Classifier to associate the classes with the node group.

We also experimented with Live Management, which allows us to initiate the Puppet runs on the Puppet agent nodes via the Puppet Enterprise Console, without having to log on to the agent node and run Puppet from the command line.

The results of the Puppet run are validated in the Reports view, which provides us with a break down of resources that were changed by Puppet in detail.

Finally, we looked at how to use Inventory Search to discover nodes based on...