Chapter 2. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting

"Found problem more than one. However, this does not mean that relevant part is thing by mistake. Could be fertilized by special purpose in other application program."—Error message

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Generating reports
  • E-mailing log messages containing specific tags
  • Creating graphical reports
  • Producing automatic HTML documentation
  • Drawing dependency graphs
  • Testing your Puppet manifests
  • Doing a dry run
  • Detecting compilation errors
  • Understanding Puppet errors
  • Logging command output
  • Logging debug messages
  • Inspecting configuration settings
  • Using tags
  • Using run stages
  • Using environments

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