I wrote a Mediawiki bot that connects to our puppet master, grabs all of the facter data that has been reported by clients, and shoves that into the host's page on our wiki.
We format the facter data in our wiki by using a custom tag: <bb facter_key/>. Once the bot runs, it expands to <bb facter_key>facter_value</bb>. I have this set to run every 5 minutes to keep our wiki up to date. The important code for said bot is here: http://github.com/arusso23/bobbie (bot framework) https://github.com/arusso23/libpuppet (puppet rest library) The documentation is admittedly lacking, but if you're interested in using it, feel free to email me off-list. Cheers, Aaron Russo IST Infrastructure Services, Unix Group UC Berkeley --- Desk: 510-643-5550Mobile: 510-206-1532 IM: [email protected] (XMPP/Jabber) On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Forrie <[email protected]> wrote: > In our department, we recently bought an install of HP's SIM agent -- it's > some hacky configuration reporting and management platform that also > facilitates firmware updates, etc. I don't care for it. > > For one, it requires root logins, but it also has agents that report -- it > also may have the ability to change the system. > > My boss is looking for information that is presented in a GUI and easily > reportable. I'm thinking Facter is a good candidate here - we can tell it > what version of software (SSH, etc), OS, etc. But, it's all command-line. > I'm wondering if there is (or if someone is working on) a web-based GUI > that can report these statistics (we don't need the overhead of something > like puppet-dashboard). > > And for misc things, we can always write custom facts. Of course, this > would only apply to systems that are running puppet. We have others that > are not. > > I've seen some other hacks out there that do different types of reporting > - if there's some better approach (open source), that would be great to > know about. > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/7L0fdmA0VNIJ. > 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. > -- 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.
