Puppet users - Sep 2009 - Monitoring whether puppetd should be run

Hi,

So far we don''t trust our puppet skills enough to have puppetd run
automatically every morning (for example).

This means we currently apply configurations using "puppetd --test"
manually when needed.

I''d like to monitor whether items/resources are out of sync and report
this to our monitoring system.

So far I see two options.

Parse the output of "puppetd --test --noop --summarize" as we get
something like this:

"Changes:
            Total: 64
Resources:
          Applied: 64
      Out of sync: 64
        Scheduled: 2430
            Total: 1088"


Another option I''ve seen is "reports" (--report when running
puppetd)
which sends a YAML report to the server.
I could then analyze reports on the puppetmaster. A raw " grep ''^
source:'' " may do the trick. I would then send the number of
pending
items to zabbix (our monitoring tool) and delete the report.

Anyway, I''m wondering whether there''s already a nifty feature
that
does what I want and that I missed.

By the way we''re running 0.24.8 but if 0.25 has better (well...
"simple to parse") reporting, we could probably move to 0.25.

Thanks for your help.
Calimero
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Calimero <calimero.ng@evolutive.org>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> So far we don''t trust our puppet skills enough to have puppetd run
> automatically every morning (for example).
>
why not ? :)
>
> Another option I''ve seen is "reports" (--report when
running puppetd)
> which sends a YAML report to the server.
> I could then analyze reports on the puppetmaster. A raw " grep
''^
> source:'' " may do the trick. I would then send the number of
pending
> items to zabbix (our monitoring tool) and delete the report.
>
one option while using reports, instead of parsing them yourself, you can
use Foreman, to collect and store the data in a database,  it should be
failry simple to display the content that you want once the reports are
imported.

(script based or http)

Ohad

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On 23 sep, 14:45, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> why not ? :)
>
Let''s say that we''re doing everything from scratch: new
distro, new
apps, new deployment system and at last: puppet+svn.

My colleague and I we''ve spent almost a year migrating configs to
puppet, creating RPM packages, etc ... so we''re pretty good at it.

But there are colleagues who''ve been fiddling with puppet for only
over a month, and haven''t played yet with our "core" classes.
Of
course we should give them some "advanced" training but again,
there''s
a lot of stuff we need to fix first... (like the fact that our current
telco will shutdown our uplink in a bit more than a week while we
still have a few services that haven''t been migrated yet to the new
infrastructure ...).

Right now we prefer applying stuff "by hand" (dsh + puppetd) on
servers that are temporarily put offline.
> one option while using reports, instead of parsing them yourself, you can
> use Foreman, to collect and store the data in a database,  it should be
> failry simple to display the content that you want once the reports are
> imported.
I''ll take a look at "The Foreman" which looks interesting.
But I''d
rather not add an extra layer / extra database.

Thanks !
Calimero
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