Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Summary

You should now have a good idea of what a report processor is, what it can be used for, and how to install new ones from Puppet Forge. In this chapter, we have examined some of the basic elements of a report processor and discovered that a report processor is a piece of Ruby code that is called every time a Puppet agent reports a transaction. We have found that report processors are easy to install, especially if they are distributed as a Puppet module, but some of the more complex report processors may need to have additional components installed to support them. We also found that you can have multiple report processors configured at once to allow you greater flexibility when processing your data. Finally, we looked at some interesting ...