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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

By : Michael Duffy
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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

By: Michael Duffy

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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
Michael Duffy
Jun, 2014 | 186 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Setting Up Puppet for Reporting
Setting Up Puppet for Reporting
Learning the basics of Puppet reporting
Exploring the Puppet configuration file
Setting up the server
Setting up the Puppet agent
Summary
2
Viewing Data in Dashboards
Viewing Data in Dashboards
Why use a dashboard?
The Puppet Dashboard feature list
Understanding Puppet Dashboard
Exploring Puppet Enterprise Console
Using The Foreman
Discovering PuppetBoard
Summary
3
Introducing Report Processors
Introducing Report Processors
Understanding a report processor
Utilizing the built-in report processors
Getting social with Twitter
Staying on top of alerts with PagerDuty
Summary
4
Creating Your Own Report Processor
Creating Your Own Report Processor
The anatomy of a report processor
Monitoring changes and alerting with Puppet
Logging with MySQL
Adding metrics and events to MySQL
Raising issues with JIRA
A final note on third-party applications
Summary
5
Exploring PuppetDB
Exploring PuppetDB
A brief history of PuppetDB
Setting up the PuppetDB server
Summary
6
Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API
Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API
Exploring the PuppetDB query API
Summary
7
Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB
Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB
Creating a basic query application
Creating a menu-driven PuppetDB application
Querying PuppetDB for report information
Summary
8
Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard
Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard
Exploring Dashing
Setting up Dashing
Creating our dashboard
Feeding data into Dashing
Adding trends
Adding meters
Summary
9
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Looking back at what we've learned
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Michael Duffy

Reviewers

Ugo Bellavance

Johan De Wit

James Fryman

Jason Slagle

Eric Stonfer

Commissioning Editor

Edward Gordon

Acquisition Editor

Llewellyn Rozario

Content Development Editor

Sankalp Pawar

Technical Editors

Taabish Khan

Aparna Kumar

Copy Editors

Insiya Morbiwala

Aditya Nair

Stuti Srivastava

Project Coordinator

Puja Shukla

Proofreaders

Maria Gould

Paul Hindle

Indexer

Mariammal Chettiyar

Production Coordinator

Sushma Redkar

Cover Work

Sushma Redkar

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