Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Setting up Dashing

Dashing is very simple to install and keep updated using the RubyGems package management system. To install Dashing, simply follow these steps:

1. Enter the following command in your command prompt:

   gem install dashing
   

2. Once it's installed, we can go straight ahead and create our dashboard. Dashing has a built-in function to create a skeleton application for us to work with and will also give you some example code to look at. Navigate to your projects folder and issue the following command:

   dashing new puppetdash
   

3. After running the command, you should have a new directory called puppetdash, which contains your new skeleton application. We now only have to complete one more step, which is to instruct the Bundler package manager to ...