Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Exploring the Puppet configuration file

Let's take a look at the default configuration that ships with Puppet Open Source. By default, you can find the config file in the /etc/puppet/puppet.conf directory. The configuration file is as follows:

[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
factpath=$vardir/lib/facter
templatedir=$confdir/templates

[master]
# These are needed when the puppetmaster is run by passenger
# and can safely be removed if webrick is used.
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY

The first interesting thing to note about this configuration file is that it can be used for the Puppet agent, Puppet master, and Puppet apply commands. ...