Puppet reporting and monitoring : create insightful reports for your server infrastructure using Puppet / Michael Duffy ; Gareth Howard Jones, cover image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffy, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Jones, Gareth Howard, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puppet (Computer file).

Computer networks--Security measures--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Create insightful reports for your server infrastructure using Puppet In Detail Starting with the very basics of Puppet, Puppet Reporting and Monitoring will guide you through configuring additional reports and creating new, feature-rich reports using the comprehensive Puppet tool. Packed with practical examples and precise instructions, this book is all you need to start exploring Puppet reports. You will then learn how to create custom reports and finally understand the best way to present and utilize multitudes of data obtained from different servers under management. You will learn how to use the built-in report processors and will also gain hands-on experience in creating your very own report processors. With this book, you will learn how to optimize its features such as asynchronous data storage and catalog compilation. You will also delve into using open source tools such as Graphite and Dashing to make attractive and informative dashboards quickly and easily. What You Will Learn Set up Puppet for reporting Utilize the built-in report processors to report, analyze, and alert Learn how to find and install custom report processors Create your own custom report processors Generate reports using PuppetDB's powerful API Create feature-rich dashboards using Puppet and Dashing

Contents:

Intro

Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Table of Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783981434

1783981431

OCLC:

884594391