Good to hear! I'm looking forward to being able to replace Dashboard, and
PuppetDB has been working great for everything else so far.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Deepak Giridharagopal <
dee...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Stephen Price <ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I finally got around to installing PuppetDB and connecting it to my
>> Master. I even set up Nginx to act as a reverse proxy, and I can make API
>> calls like a pro. The dashboard is nice, but I'm anxious to get at least
>> the same functionality that Puppet Dashboard gave me. Namely, a quick look
>> at recent catalog changes or run failures (is this even possible, since
>> PuppetDB doesn't yet receive reports?).
>>
>> Does anyone have any interfaces or scripts they've built around the API
>> for getting quick access to this information? Or perhaps any tips for
>> building it on my own?
>>
>
> Until we get report storage integrated (which we're actively working on as
> we speak), this information isn't present in PuppetDB. However, you can
> still send reports to Dashboard, and view the data from there in the
> mean-time. And because PuppetDB implements the inventory service API, all
> the other dashboard functionality should work exactly the same. But in
> terms of a programmable interface to that info by hitting PuppetDB
> directly, that's coming soon but isn't there yet.
>
> You can access the timestamps of the last catalog or set of facts that
> puppetdb has received for a node, however. So you can use that to check for
> the last time a master compiled a catalog for a given node. But without
> reports, we can't currently tell you if any resources have changed. We're
> working on it, though. :)
>
> deepak
>
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