Puppet Reports integration¶

Note You need Foreman 0.1-1 or newer to support Puppet Reports.

Overview¶

Foreman uses a custom puppet reports (similar to tagmail or store) which simply upload the puppet report to Foreman.
This enables you to see the reports through the web interface in almost real time.

Configuration¶

client¶

Ensure that the puppet clients has the following option in their puppet.conf:

report = true

Without it, no reports will be sent.

puppetmaster¶

1. copy extras/puppet/foreman/files/foreman-report.rb to your report directory - e.g. /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/reports/foreman.rb
2. open the new file with your favorite editor
3. edit the URL (unless you have a DNS alias for foreman already) to point to foreman.
4. add this report in your puppetmaster reports - e.g, in your puppet.conf add:

reports=log, foreman

and restart your puppetmaster

You should start seeing reports coming in under the reports link.

Expire Reports automatically¶

You would probably want to delete your reports after some time, in order to do so, you would need to set a cronjob:

Available conditions:

• days => number of days to keep reports (defaults to 7)
• status => status of the report (defaults to 0 --> "reports with no errors")

Example:

1. Expires all reports regardless of their status
   

   rake reports:expire days=7 RAILS_ENV="production" 
   

2. expires all non interesting reports after one day
   

   rake reports:expire days=1 status=0 RAILS_ENV="production" 
   

Todo:¶

1. Associate Users with Hosts, this will allow to send notifications (e.g. email) to the right users
2. Send out a summary of all of yours hosts status per day