Puppet users - Sep 2009 - commonly used, defacto standard web frontend to facter ... that everyone loves?

I''m new to puppet in general - I just have a minimal node.pp defined
for 2 clients so far. Before I reinvent the wheel ... is there a good
web UI to facter that everyone uses? I''ve looked over foreman and I
figure since it''s new, it''s probably not in widespread use
currently.
Any suggestions?

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We use iClassify but it has been abandoned upstream.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Richard Wurman
<richardsaulwurman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I''m new to puppet in general - I just have a minimal node.pp
defined
> for 2 clients so far. Before I reinvent the wheel ... is there a good
> web UI to facter that everyone uses? I''ve looked over foreman and
I
> figure since it''s new, it''s probably not in widespread
use currently.
> Any suggestions?
>
> >
>
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Richard Wurman
<richardsaulwurman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I''m new to puppet in general - I just have a minimal node.pp
defined
> for 2 clients so far. Before I reinvent the wheel ... is there a good
> web UI to facter that everyone uses? I''ve looked over foreman and
I
> figure since it''s new, it''s probably not in widespread
use currently.
> Any suggestions?
>

I installed foremen yesterday and it was ridiculously easy to set up.
I haven''t figured out how to make it work over  WAN or even if it can
yet but as a front end to facter it seems pretty cool.

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On 9/15/09, Richard Wurman <richardsaulwurman@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> I''m new to puppet in general - I just have a minimal node.pp
defined
> for 2 clients so far. Before I reinvent the wheel ... is there a good
> web UI to facter that everyone uses? I''ve looked over foreman and
I
> figure since it''s new, it''s probably not in widespread
use currently.

Which features did you miss? I''ll be happy for any feedback.

Ohad

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On 9/15/09, Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I installed foremen yesterday and it was ridiculously easy to set up.
> I haven''t figured out how to make it work over  WAN or even if it
can
> yet but as a front end to facter it seems pretty cool.

Thanks for the feedback, nice to know :)

What do you mean by over WAN? for facts? reports or both?
in the stable version you can specify a different directory where you could
import your facts from, however, I''m planing to write in the next few
days a
simple fact importer that post the data to foreman web interface.
(more or less the same like how puppet reports are imported to Foreman).

I''ve created - http://theforeman.org/issues/show/10

Cheers,
Ohad

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>
> What do you mean by over WAN? for facts? reports or both?
Neither I think. I mean kick start a machine outside of the local LAN.
 I have numerous data centers in different countries. My puppermaster
is sitting in one country, I want to kick off a new server in another
country. Both are behind firewalls but of course I have the puppet
ports forwarding.

To be honest I really haven''t spend any time with the foreman docs to
know if it''s a suitable project or not. I thought I''d try and
see what
it did.
> I''ve created - http://theforeman.org/issues/show/10
>
I described in another email a process I intend to set up to send
facts over to a zabbix server. We use zabbix for monitoring and if I
could send facts to it I can not only graph them but base alerts off
of them.

One thing you may want to consider for the future is the ability to
manipulate the RRD files puppets puts out and to be able create alerts
based on them.

It seems like between puppet and foreman you already have about 50% of
zabbix does with some nice additional feature.

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On 9/15/09, Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > What do you mean by over WAN? for facts? reports or both?
>
>
> Neither I think. I mean kick start a machine outside of the local LAN.
>   I have numerous data centers in different countries. My puppermaster
> is sitting in one country, I want to kick off a new server in another
> country. Both are behind firewalls but of course I have the puppet
> ports forwarding.

I''ve done this successfully with around 2000 installations.
the only thing you need to consider is where is your installation source
located, obviously Foreman just provide your kickstart / preseed  /
jumpstart files which point to the real location of the installation media.


I described in another email a process I intend to set up to
send
> facts over to a zabbix server. We use zabbix for monitoring and if I
> could send facts to it I can not only graph them but base alerts off
> of them.

which kind of graphs? something like how many servers are X or Y etc?

One thing you may want to consider for the future is the ability
to
> manipulate the RRD files puppets puts out and to be able create alerts
> based on them.
I''m just implementing now the reports collector, It would be very easy
to
send out an alert based on various criteria e.g.:
- something failed in the puppet run
- took too long
- no report
etc


It seems like between puppet and foreman you already have about 50%
of
> zabbix does with some nice additional feature.

Thanks, My main goal is to make Foreman the main place you want to go each
time you want something related to your puppet managed servers.

Thanks for the feedback,
Ohads

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>
> which kind of graphs? something like how many servers are X or Y etc?
Things like memory usage, free disk space etc. Actually since zabbix
can be configured to accept, graph, and alert on just about anything
you can do things like number of postgres connections, the size of a
table, the size of a particular file, the number of hits to a page
etc.

One nice feature it has is that you can alert if it doesn''t get a
value it''s expecting in a particular time frame.
>
> I''m just implementing now the reports collector, It would be very
easy to
> send out an alert based on various criteria e.g.:
> - something failed in the puppet run
> - took too long
> - no report
> etc
Yea.  Also things like "running out of disk space", process X taking
up more than Y amount of ram, "I haven''t gotten a report from host
X
in two hours" etc.
>
> Thanks, My main goal is to make Foreman the main place you want to go each
> time you want something related to your puppet managed servers.
Good luck.
>
> Thanks for the feedback,
> Ohads
Any time.

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