Puppet users - Sep 2013 - /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/$hostname yaml files not recent

Cross-posted from Puppet Enterprise Users:

Is Puppet Enterprise (3.0) supposed to create a yaml file in 
/var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/$hostname every time it runs?  Because the 
files in this directory on all my nodes are not very consistent and they 
are not recent.  If I do a puppet run on the node either through 
the Console or manually on the the node, it does not create a new yaml 
report file.
 
My bigger need is to generate my own custom reports from Puppet runs.  I 
thought these yaml files would be easier to parse than the log messages 
sent to syslog.  The information I want to display is a summary of what 
Puppet found to change for particular class/modules.  
 
Thanks.

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Still cannot figure out why I have such a variety of dates for the yaml 
files that exist in /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/`hostname` on each node. 
Each node is configured with "report = true", and the reports are 
supposedly being sent to the Master. Not sure at all why sometimes I get a 
local yaml file, and sometimes I don''t.

Anyway, I''m using Puppet Enterprise, and my reading of the docs tells
me
the Master is storing the info from each run in PuppetDB. Anyone have any 
luck extracting info from PuppetDB? Again, what I''m looking for is what
Puppet changed or wants to change on each node. Thanks. 

On Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:16:35 PM UTC-4, root wrote:
> Cross-posted from Puppet Enterprise Users:
>
> Is Puppet Enterprise (3.0) supposed to create a yaml file in 
> /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/$hostname every time it runs?  Because the 
> files in this directory on all my nodes are not very consistent and they 
> are not recent.  If I do a puppet run on the node either through 
> the Console or manually on the the node, it does not create a new yaml 
> report file.
>  
> My bigger need is to generate my own custom reports from Puppet runs.  I 
> thought these yaml files would be easier to parse than the log messages 
> sent to syslog.  The information I want to display is a summary of what 
> Puppet found to change for particular class/modules.  
>  
> Thanks.
>
>
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By default, reports are not stored on the individual nodes, but sent to the 
master. There are some situations where local files get created, mostly 
involving the node running standalone. Not sure if PE has different 
defaults, but normally you should find all reports on the master, in the 
directory specified by reportdir.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#reports You 
should check all the report* parameters on that page for correctness in 
your environment.

Details on the report formats is on this page. 
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/report.html

An option to ''reports'' that is oddly not mentioned on that
page is the
puppetdb option, which is to store reports in puppetdb, and is described on 
this page. 
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/1.4/connect_puppet_master.html

On Monday, September 16, 2013 9:10:05 AM UTC-7, root
wrote:
>
> Still cannot figure out why I have such a variety of dates for the yaml 
> files that exist in /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/`hostname` on each node.
> Each node is configured with "report = true", and the reports are
> supposedly being sent to the Master. Not sure at all why sometimes I get a 
> local yaml file, and sometimes I don''t.
>
> Anyway, I''m using Puppet Enterprise, and my reading of the docs
tells me
> the Master is storing the info from each run in PuppetDB. Anyone have any 
> luck extracting info from PuppetDB? Again, what I''m looking for is
what
> Puppet changed or wants to change on each node. Thanks. 
>
> On Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:16:35 PM UTC-4, root wrote:
>
>> Cross-posted from Puppet Enterprise Users:
>>
>> Is Puppet Enterprise (3.0) supposed to create a yaml file in 
>> /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/$hostname every time it runs?  Because
the
>> files in this directory on all my nodes are not very consistent and
they
>> are not recent.  If I do a puppet run on the node either through 
>> the Console or manually on the the node, it does not create a new yaml 
>> report file.
>>  
>> My bigger need is to generate my own custom reports from Puppet runs. 
I
>> thought these yaml files would be easier to parse than the log messages
>> sent to syslog.  The information I want to display is a summary of what
>> Puppet found to change for particular class/modules.  
>>  
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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Thanks for the response.  Alas, the Master has only reports for itself, and 
even those are not up to date.  It looks like Puppet Enterprise sends all 
the reports to PuppetDB.  Not sure why I have any yaml files at all in the 
reportdir.  

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:34:57 PM UTC-4, Ellison Marks wrote:
> By default, reports are not stored on the individual nodes, but sent to 
> the master. There are some situations where local files get created, mostly
> involving the node running standalone. Not sure if PE has different 
> defaults, but normally you should find all reports on the master, in the 
> directory specified by reportdir.
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#reportsYou
should check all the report* parameters on that page for correctness in
> your environment.
>
> Details on the report formats is on this page. 
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/report.html
>
> An option to ''reports'' that is oddly not mentioned on
that page is the
> puppetdb option, which is to store reports in puppetdb, and is described on
> this page. 
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/1.4/connect_puppet_master.html
>
> On Monday, September 16, 2013 9:10:05 AM UTC-7, root wrote:
>>
>> Still cannot figure out why I have such a variety of dates for the yaml
>> files that exist in /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/`hostname` on each
node.
>> Each node is configured with "report = true", and the reports
are
>> supposedly being sent to the Master. Not sure at all why sometimes I
get a
>> local yaml file, and sometimes I don''t.
>>
>> Anyway, I''m using Puppet Enterprise, and my reading of the
docs tells me
>> the Master is storing the info from each run in PuppetDB. Anyone have
any
>> luck extracting info from PuppetDB? Again, what I''m looking
for is what
>> Puppet changed or wants to change on each node. Thanks. 
>>
>> On Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:16:35 PM UTC-4, root wrote:
>>
>>> Cross-posted from Puppet Enterprise Users:
>>>
>>> Is Puppet Enterprise (3.0) supposed to create a yaml file in 
>>> /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/reports/$hostname every time it runs? 
Because the
>>> files in this directory on all my nodes are not very consistent and
they
>>> are not recent.  If I do a puppet run on the node either through 
>>> the Console or manually on the the node, it does not create a new
yaml
>>> report file.
>>>  
>>> My bigger need is to generate my own custom reports from Puppet
runs.  I
>>> thought these yaml files would be easier to parse than the log
messages
>>> sent to syslog.  The information I want to display is a summary of
what
>>> Puppet found to change for particular class/modules.  
>>>  
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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