Checking the statuses of hosts from Foreman

We have already used Foreman interface many times in this book. We will now check its details for reporting purposes. The first thing we will check with Puppet is the general statuses of all the hosts. The general overview will show us a summary of all the hosts' statuses. We will see how many hosts have performed successful operations and how many of them failed. We can see the dashboard interface in Foreman from the Monitor | Dashboard top menu. The following is a screenshot of the dashboard:

Checking the statuses of hosts from Foreman

In this dashboard, we can see a general summary of all the hosts on the basis of following details:

  • Hosts that ...

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