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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

By : Michael Duffy
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Setting Up Puppet for Reporting
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Setting Up Puppet for Reporting
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Learning the basics of Puppet reporting
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Exploring the Puppet configuration file
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Setting up the server
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Setting up the Puppet agent
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Summary
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Viewing Data in Dashboards
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Viewing Data in Dashboards
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Why use a dashboard?
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The Puppet Dashboard feature list
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Understanding Puppet Dashboard
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Exploring Puppet Enterprise Console
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Using The Foreman
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Discovering PuppetBoard
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Summary
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Introducing Report Processors
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Introducing Report Processors
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Understanding a report processor
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Utilizing the built-in report processors
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Getting social with Twitter
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Staying on top of alerts with PagerDuty
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Summary
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Creating Your Own Report Processor
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Creating Your Own Report Processor
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The anatomy of a report processor
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Monitoring changes and alerting with Puppet
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Logging with MySQL
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Adding metrics and events to MySQL
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Raising issues with JIRA
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A final note on third-party applications
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Summary
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Exploring PuppetDB
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Exploring PuppetDB
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A brief history of PuppetDB
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Setting up the PuppetDB server
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Summary
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Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API
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Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API
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Exploring the PuppetDB query API
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Summary
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Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB
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Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB
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Creating a basic query application
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Creating a menu-driven PuppetDB application
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Querying PuppetDB for report information
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Summary
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Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard
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Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard
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Exploring Dashing
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Setting up Dashing
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Creating our dashboard
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Feeding data into Dashing
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Adding trends
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Adding meters
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Summary
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Looking back at what we've learned
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Index
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Index

Chapter 5. Exploring PuppetDB

We have spent quite a bit of time looking at the basics of the Puppet reporting system and learned a fair bit about its underlying mechanisms and data formats. Now, it is time to turn our attention to PuppetDB. PuppetDB is an extremely fast data storage service that Puppet is able to utilize in preference to storing the reports elsewhere, and it offers a rich API for data discovery.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • A brief tour of PuppetDB and its uses

  • Backend data storage options for PuppetDB

  • Configuring your Puppet masters to use PuppetDB

By the end of this chapter, you should be comfortable both with what PuppetDB is used for and how to install and configure it.

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