Hi all. We have a bunch of RHEL servers running Puppet. They are also connected to our Red Hat Satellite server. Currently we don't have any master documentation system that stores all relevant information (i.e. type of server, hardware info, linux configuration, etc) about the servers. So what I'd like to do is implement some sort of system that can hold all this information. There are a lot of asset management products that I guess could get us a long way (and our organization is probably going to buy one soon), but I'm not sure how flexible these would be with regards to storing custom information and such. The asset management product will be administred by someone else within the organisation, and having that person implement linux specific info (such as puppet) and stuff may not be very realistic. First of all, how to other people handle this sort of thing? Storing info in excel-files is no good, since the information will be outdated by the time I press "save". We need a more or less automatic way of doing this, but is asset management products the way to go? Currently, our node definition in Puppet holds the most current infomation when it comes to confuguration, while Satellite server holds a lot of other information. I'm hoping to integrate all our server info (including puppet) into a database (preferably the Satellite server database on Oracle), so that we can query it for info. I've been playing around with two ideas for automating system documentation:
1) Parse the puppet manifests (and node definitions) and organize the info in a database 2) Include a logging functionality in the puppet manifests, so that when the clients implement the configuration it logs a specific text to syslog. The syslog message is sent over to our log host, which can parse it and store the information in a database. Maybe the first option is allready implemented? Anyway, have anyone implemented such mechanisms? Best regards, Kenneth Holter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
