On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, treydock <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my puppet-dashboard when a change is made to files and it shows the
> MD5 sums I am never presented a link to view the file or any diffs of
> those files. I assume that the text between '[' and ']' is supposed
> to be the link but it's just plain text. This is when viewing
> individual reports in Puppet-dashboard. I can expand the line under
> "Events" where that change is recorded.
>
> Here's an example...
>
> notice content changed '{md5}7a8ec7feb2846a2cffd246b67d3d7842' to
> '{md5}a6175c11d9055942d7970258422b7cdd' /Stage[main]/Sudo/File[/etc/
> sudoers]/content /etc/puppet/modules/sudo/manifests/init.pp 12
> 2011-05-03 10:29 CDT
>
> Nothing in the report is a linked field to allow me to few either
> filebucket contents or a diff. I do not know where to begin in
> troubleshooting this as I am seeing absolutely no errors in any log
> files. I'm running puppet, and puppetmaster 2.6.8 and dashboard
> 1.1.0. The dashboard is hosted on an Apache server using Passenger.
> If there are some debugging or troubleshooting steps that may help
> narrow this down please let me know.
>
We *very* much need to improve the documentation here, but you need to:
copy config/settings.yml.example to config/settings.yml
* set up a certificate/key for Dashboard so it can communicate over the API
to the filebucket. This is probably easiest done with "puppet cert generate
...." on your CA then copying the files across to your Dashboard (assuming
they're on different machines)
* fill in all the SSL cert/key settings in settings.yml
* fill in the file_bucket_server address in settings.yml
* set use_file_bucket_diffs: true in settings.yml
On your puppet master, make sure you have a filebucket 'main' defined, and
that it's applying to all File resources. The easiest way is to put
something like this in site.pp
filebucket { "main": server => "debian5-1.localdomain", path => false }
File { backup => "main" }
This sets the server for filebucket to "debian..." (replace with your
server) and sets a resource default so all File resources use this
filebucket.
Then when you run on your nodes, they'll backup file changes to the
filebucket, and when they send reports to the dashboard, the md5{} checksums
will be links to the filebucket.
As soon as you've got this working you're going to get frustrated by:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7869
where we don't actually show the diff, just the old and new files. This
should be a relatively easy fix to implement, as we have the complete API
for showing diffs as per:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_api.html#file-bucket
and we know the md5 to diff with.
>
> Thanks
> - Trey
>
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