Summary
Reports help you understand when things go wrong. Using some of the built-in report types, it's possible to alert your admins to Puppet failures. The GUIs mentioned here allow you to review Puppet run logs. Foreman has the most polished feel and makes it easier to link directly to reports and search for reports. mcollective is an orchestration utility that allows you to actively query and modify all the nodes in an organized manner interactively via a message broker.
In the next chapter, we will be installing PuppetDB and creating exported resources.
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