Puppet users - Jun 2010 - Seemingly simple question - current status?

I have a 3 different puppetmasters running different groups of
machines (dev, testing, and production).  I''d like to very simply say
"Give me a brief summary of the status of the nodes you manage."

I''ve been having nightmare dependency problems trying to get things
like Dashboard running that seem to be able to do this (Ruby, which
may be an elegant language, is very crunchynew in regards to specific
versions and stable updates.  Frustrating).

What I''d like to see is something like:

$ puppetstatus
Node etl01.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:40pm, last update:
6/26/2010 11:05am (Module sudoers)
Node etl02.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 11:25am, last update:
6/26/2010 11:03am (Module sudoers)
Node etl03.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm, last update:
6/26/2010 9:05am (Module sudoers)
Node db02.foo.com: Error (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm) : Depedency
not met : MySQL v5.1.20

Is this possible?  I looked at the external nodes methodology, but
that seems to be a mechanism for just storing node definitions, not
getting status updates.


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Well you can use the reporting system, dump to YAML and parse, but I
would highly suggest waiting until 2.6.0 where the reporting is going
from cludgy to elegant.  If you need it now, look at:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Reports_And_Reporting

Right now supported things are email, syslog, and YAML (aka storage).
A script could easily parse the YAML and do what you want, but since
it is changing radically (for the better) in 2.6.0 I would avoid any
heavy coding.

- Tom

On Jun 28, 9:38 am, dbs <dbelfershev...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a 3 different puppetmasters running different groups of
> machines (dev, testing, and production).  I''d like to very simply
say
> "Give me a brief summary of the status of the nodes you manage."
>
> I''ve been having nightmare dependency problems trying to get
things
> like Dashboard running that seem to be able to do this (Ruby, which
> may be an elegant language, is very crunchynew in regards to specific
> versions and stable updates.  Frustrating).
>
> What I''d like to see is something like:
>
> $ puppetstatus
> Node etl01.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:40pm, last update:
> 6/26/2010 11:05am (Module sudoers)
> Node etl02.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 11:25am, last update:
> 6/26/2010 11:03am (Module sudoers)
> Node etl03.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm, last update:
> 6/26/2010 9:05am (Module sudoers)
> Node db02.foo.com: Error (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm) : Depedency
> not met : MySQL v5.1.20
>
> Is this possible?  I looked at the external nodes methodology, but
> that seems to be a mechanism for just storing node definitions, not
> getting status updates.
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On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:38 AM, dbs wrote:
> I have a 3 different puppetmasters running different groups of
> machines (dev, testing, and production).  I''d like to very simply
say
> "Give me a brief summary of the status of the nodes you manage."
>
> I''ve been having nightmare dependency problems trying to get
things
> like Dashboard running that seem to be able to do this (Ruby, which
> may be an elegant language, is very crunchynew in regards to specific
> versions and stable updates.  Frustrating).
>
> What I''d like to see is something like:
>
> $ puppetstatus
> Node etl01.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:40pm, last update:
> 6/26/2010 11:05am (Module sudoers)
> Node etl02.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 11:25am, last update:
> 6/26/2010 11:03am (Module sudoers)
> Node etl03.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm, last update:
> 6/26/2010 9:05am (Module sudoers)
> Node db02.foo.com: Error (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm) : Depedency
> not met : MySQL v5.1.20
>
> Is this possible?  I looked at the external nodes methodology, but
> that seems to be a mechanism for just storing node definitions, not
> getting status updates.
The Puppet Dashboard provides this as long as you hook your reports up  
to go to it, plus there are other things like puppetlast and Foreman  
that can do similar work.

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On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:38 AM, dbs wrote:
> 
>> I have a 3 different puppetmasters running different groups of
>> machines (dev, testing, and production).  I''d like to very
simply say
>> "Give me a brief summary of the status of the nodes you
manage."
>> 
>> I''ve been having nightmare dependency problems trying to get
things
>> like Dashboard running that seem to be able to do this (Ruby, which
>> may be an elegant language, is very crunchynew in regards to specific
>> versions and stable updates.  Frustrating).
>> 
>> What I''d like to see is something like:
>> 
>> $ puppetstatus
>> Node etl01.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:40pm, last update:
>> 6/26/2010 11:05am (Module sudoers)
>> Node etl02.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 11:25am, last update:
>> 6/26/2010 11:03am (Module sudoers)
>> Node etl03.foo.com : Ok (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm, last update:
>> 6/26/2010 9:05am (Module sudoers)
>> Node db02.foo.com: Error (Last contact: 6/28/2010 12:18pm) : Depedency
>> not met : MySQL v5.1.20
>> 
>> Is this possible?  I looked at the external nodes methodology, but
>> that seems to be a mechanism for just storing node definitions, not
>> getting status updates.
> 
> The Puppet Dashboard provides this as long as you hook your reports up to
go to it, plus there are other things like puppetlast and Foreman that can do
similar work.
Just a heads up for dbs, puppetlast will tell you when the last run happened. 
It won''t tell you if the run succeeded though.

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