Puppet Reporting and Monitoring. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Duffy, Michael
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: 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; Chapter 2: Viewing Data in Dashboards; Why use a dashboard?; The Puppet Dashboard feature list; Understanding Puppet Dashboard; Exploring Puppet Enterprise Console; Event Inspector; Puppet Live Management; Using The Foreman; Reporting with The Foreman; Looking at trends in The Foreman. Discovering PuppetBoardSummary; Chapter 3: Introducing Report Processors; Understanding a report processor; Utilizing the built-in report processors; Storing reports with the store report processor; Adding to log files with the log report processor; Graphing with the rrdgraph processor; The tagmail report processor; Sending reports with the HTTP report processor; The PuppetDB report processor; Exploring the power of third-party plugins; Getting social with Twitter; Staying on top of alerts with PagerDuty; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating Your Own Report Processor. The anatomy of a report processorCreating a basic report processor; Registering your report processor; Describing your report processor; Processing your report; Values of the self.status object; Alerting with e-mail and Puppet; Managing your report processor configuration with Puppet; 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; Chapter 5: Exploring PuppetDB; A brief history of PuppetDB; Setting up the PuppetDB server; Installing PuppetDB. Installing PuppetDB from packagesIncreasing JVM heap space; Installing PostgreSQL; Installing the packages; Creating your database user; Creating the PostgreSQL database; Summary; Chapter 6: Retrieving Data with the PuppetDB API; Exploring the PuppetDB query API; Understanding the command interface; Understanding the query API interface; A primer on the PuppetDB query language; Exploring endpoints; Using the facts endpoint; Using the resources endpoint; Retrieving details about nodes; Getting the run details with the catalogs endpoint; Understanding the fact-names endpoint. Knowing the status of PuppetDB with the metrics endpointUsing the reports endpoint; Working with the events endpoint; Using the event-counts endpoint; Applying the aggregate-event-counts endpoint; Using the server-time endpoint; The version endpoint; Summary; Chapter 7: Writing Custom Reports with PuppetDB; Creating a basic query application; Setting up the basic application; Connecting to PuppetDB; Outputting results; Creating a menu-driven PuppetDB application; Setting up the UI; Querying PuppetDB's facts endpoint; Outputting the hardware report; Querying PuppetDB for report information.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (186 pages)
• Subjects: 005.117; COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- Linux; Software configuration management; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Object Oriented; Software configuration management; COMPUTERS -- System Administration -- Linux & UNIX Administration; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783981434; 1783981431; 9781783981427; 1783981423
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