Puppet users - Dec 2009 - puppet-dashboard - connection to existing puppet environment

I was able to get puppet-dashboard up and running on my existing
puppet server and the interface looks great. However none of my
existing puppet environment activity is showing up in the puppet-
dashboard.

I have successfully setup puppetshow and storeconfigs in a prior
installation of puppet and I thought that maybe the configuration
might be similar but after looking at the configs and comparing the
two databases/tables I''m not sure that I know how to configure it
properly for puppet-dashboard. I''m still pretty new to puppet.

How do I get my existing puppet environment pointed to the puppet-
dashboard database? Did I miss a step in the puppet-dashboard
installation?

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tomholl wrote:
> I was able to get puppet-dashboard up and running on my existing
> puppet server and the interface looks great. However none of my
> existing puppet environment activity is showing up in the puppet-
> dashboard.
>
> I have successfully setup puppetshow and storeconfigs in a prior
> installation of puppet and I thought that maybe the configuration
> might be similar but after looking at the configs and comparing the
> two databases/tables I''m not sure that I know how to configure it
> properly for puppet-dashboard. I''m still pretty new to puppet.
>
> How do I get my existing puppet environment pointed to the puppet-
> dashboard database? Did I miss a step in the puppet-dashboard
> installation?
>
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I was also under the impression it would use the stored config and 
existing reports, however Ohad Levy informed me that it uses a custom 
report and sends it to the dashboard at :3000, assumed on localhost by 
default. So you need to make sure you install the custom reporter, I 
think it''s called ''puppet-dashboard'' on your nodes,
as well as enabling
this type of report in the ''reports'' config directive.

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Hi folks,

Dashboard doesn''t (currently) use stored configs or existing reports.
The
README.markdown file in your Dashboard directory has instructions on using
the included puppet_dashboard report processor with your puppetmasterd to
send reports to the Dashboard. Please let me know if you run into any
problems following them.

Your puppetmasterd must be able to speak to the Dashboard via HTTP and
assumes that the Dashboard is available at "localhost" on port 3000 by
default.

You do not have to configure individual puppet clients.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Joe McDonagh
<joseph.e.mcdonagh@gmail.com>wrote:
> tomholl wrote:
> > I was able to get puppet-dashboard up and running on my existing
> > puppet server and the interface looks great. However none of my
> > existing puppet environment activity is showing up in the puppet-
> > dashboard.
> >
> > I have successfully setup puppetshow and storeconfigs in a prior
> > installation of puppet and I thought that maybe the configuration
> > might be similar but after looking at the configs and comparing the
> > two databases/tables I''m not sure that I know how to
configure it
> > properly for puppet-dashboard. I''m still pretty new to
puppet.
> >
> > How do I get my existing puppet environment pointed to the puppet-
> > dashboard database? Did I miss a step in the puppet-dashboard
> > installation?
> >
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> I was also under the impression it would use the stored config and
> existing reports, however Ohad Levy informed me that it uses a custom
> report and sends it to the dashboard at :3000, assumed on localhost by
> default. So you need to make sure you install the custom reporter, I
> think it''s called ''puppet-dashboard'' on your
nodes, as well as enabling
> this type of report in the ''reports'' config directive.
>
> --
> Joe McDonagh
> Silent Penguin Services
> Operations Engineer
> AIM: YoosingYoonickz
> IRC: joe-mac on freenode
> Blog: www.colonfail.com
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Hrrm.  I haven''t previously messed with ''reports'' or
even external node
generation.  What do I need to do to tie into my existing vanilla
nodes.pp-style setup?

David

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:29:33AM -0800, Rein Henrichs
wrote:
>    Hi folks,
>    Dashboard doesn''t (currently) use stored configs or existing
reports. The
>    README.markdown file in your Dashboard directory has instructions on
using
>    the included puppet_dashboard report processor with your puppetmasterd
to
>    send reports to the Dashboard. Please let me know if you run into any
>    problems following them.
>    Your puppetmasterd must be able to speak to the Dashboard via HTTP and
>    assumes that the Dashboard is available at "localhost" on port
3000 by
>    default.
>    You do not have to configure individual puppet clients.

Rein Henrichs wrote:
>
>
> You do not have to configure individual puppet clients.
>
That''s awesome... I thought I would have to have the report processor
on
each node.

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I am still having some trouble getting this to work as per the
README.markdown instructions.

I was able to get it working by copying the puppet_dashboard.rb into /
usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reports

Setting the $libdir in puppet.conf seemed to work but I still kept
getting "No report named ''puppet_dashboard'' " errors
after each
successful catalog compile.

The reason I think the $libdir was getting set is that the output of
''puppetd --configprint libdir'' and ''puppetmasterd
--configprint
libdir'' is /opt/puppetdashboard/lib/puppet (where I put my test
install)

Since I kept getting errors about not finding the report I ran
''puppetmasterd --configprint reports''  and got an output of
store.
Once I found where the store file was and copied the
puppet_dashboard.rb file into that location (/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
1.8/puppet/reports) everything worked.

So what am I missing? Why did I have to copy the report file over to /
usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/reports if my $libdir was set
properly?

I''m running puppet 0.24.8




On Dec 16, 11:29 am, Rein Henrichs <r...@reductivelabs.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Dashboard doesn''t (currently) use stored configs or existing
reports. The
> README.markdown file in your Dashboard directory has instructions on using
> the included puppet_dashboard report processor with your puppetmasterd to
> send reports to the Dashboard. Please let me know if you run into any
> problems following them.
>
> Your puppetmasterd must be able to speak to the Dashboard via HTTP and
> assumes that the Dashboard is available at "localhost" on port
3000 by
> default.
>
> You do not have to configure individual puppet clients.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Joe McDonagh
> <joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
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