Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
An easy to follow guide with extensive examples to explain Puppet's reporting capabilities to facilitate effective implementation of Puppet in the real world as a reporting tool. If you are a Puppet developer or a system administrator using Puppet, and you want to extend your expertise to manag...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham
Packt Publishing, Limited
2014
Packt Publishing |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781783981427, 1783981423 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Puppet Reporting and Monitoring -- Table of Contents -- Puppet Reporting and Monitoring -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 -- 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 PuppetBoard -- Summary -- 3. Introducing Report Processors -- Understanding a report processor -- Utilizing the built-in report processors -- Storing reports with the store report processor -- Adding to logfiles 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 -- 4. Creating Your Own Report Processor -- The anatomy of a report processor -- Creating 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 -- 5. Exploring PuppetDB -- A brief history of PuppetDB -- Setting up the PuppetDB server -- Installing PuppetDB -- Installing PuppetDB from packages -- Increasing the JVM heap space -- Installing PostgreSQL -- Installing the packages -- Creating your database user -- Creating the PostgreSQL database -- Summary -- 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 endpoint -- Using 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 -- 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 -- Creating the PuppetDB query method -- Fetching the event counts -- Presenting the events data -- Testing our application -- Summary -- 8. Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard -- Exploring Dashing -- Setting up Dashing -- Exploring the default puppetdash directory layout -- Running Dashing -- Creating our dashboard
- Creating our dashboard layout -- Feeding data into Dashing -- Creating new jobs in Dashing -- Adding trends -- Adding meters -- Summary -- 9. Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Looking back at what we've learned -- Rediscovering dashboards -- Producing alerts -- Using Nagios -- Discovering Icinga and Shinken -- Compliance monitoring with Puppet -- Analyzing metrics with StatsD, Graphite, and Etsy Skyline -- Tracking changes with Puppet and Graphite -- Using Etsy Skyline to find your normal -- Using Puppet to drive orchestration -- Summary -- Index