Features

Version 43 (Ohad Levy, 04/05/2012 04:53 pm)

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h3. Browse your puppet hosts inventory(facts), latest status (puppet reports) and manifests(puppet classes)
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* View your hosts based on various criteria (classes, Environments, hardware facts etc)
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* Import Puppet facts (e.g. if you are not using Storeconfig, you can still have all of your hosts inventory).
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* See host status based on puppet reports (E.g. what has changed, failed skipped etc)
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* See a Dashboard like view for your nodes
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* Trigger remote [[puppetrun]] via the web console
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* [[Summarized E-Mail Reports]] - e.g. no more need for puppet's tagmail etc
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* [[Puppet class browser]]
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* Manage user access via [[roles and permissions]]
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h3. Define your nodes setup through Puppet [[External_Nodes]].
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* use the web interface to define your nodes setup, avoiding the need for node statements in your manifest
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* define special variable per nodes (or per group, domains etc) , so you don't need to put them as part of your manifests.
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h3. [[Unattended installations|Provision your servers]] (currently supported Kickstart, Jumpstart, Preseed and autoyast) hands free
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You can use Foreman to install your servers for you! currently *tested* operating systems are:
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* RedHat (CentOs) 3, 4 and 5 and 6.
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* Fedora 10 - 16
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* Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
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* Debian Lenny, Squeeze
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* Solaris 8, 10
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* OpenSUSE 11.4
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What about [[other operating system]]?
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That would also include everything which is required to get puppet running on your host (e.g.):
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* PuppetCA management
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* TFTP management
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* DNS management
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* DHCP management
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* Virtual machine management 
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h3. Active Directory or [[LDAP Authentication]]
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h3. Audit Log 
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* See who changed what in your hosts
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h3. [[Query Interface]]
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* Please note the query interface is DEPRECATED, and may be removed at a future date, please check out the new [[API]]
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* Feed external tools information about your hosts based on inventory or puppet class values
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* Allow puppet to query inside the manifest, allowing to have mini storeconfig like collection.
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h3. Extensive restful [[API]]
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h3. "RemoteAdmin":http://remoteadmin.co Mobile App for Android and iOS 
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* Control your foreman environment from your mobile device
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* assign puppet classes
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* view reports
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* modify hostgroup settings
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* Extensive fact viewer with dynamic graphs of all your facts
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h3. Command line tool [[Foremancli]]
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* Current provides a command line tool to query the API in a read-only fashion, called foremancli
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* Future enhancements to include a full git-style command/subcommand tool that supports all API features (Tentatively named hammer)
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Any additional feature requests are welcome - please create a new issue