Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Summary

By now, you have a good idea of what you can do with the Puppet report processor. We've taken a look at the very basics of a report processor and explored the simple steps required to create a new one. We've also investigated ways to parse the data that Puppet sends in its transaction reports and noted how the majority of the code in a report processor is generally business logic that deals with data rather than low-level connectivity code. The example code in this chapter demonstrated how there is generally a library available that can ease the development of report processors by taking care of common tasks such as connecting to databases and third-party applications.

In this chapter, we've covered how to send e-mails, export data to MySQL, ...