Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

include puppet

Puppet::Reports::register_report(:myfirstreport) do
  desc "My very first report!"

  def process
    if self.status == 'failed'
      msg = "failed puppet run for #{self.host} #{self.status}
      File.open('./tmp/puppetpanic.txt', 'w') { | f | f.write(msg)}
    end
  end
end

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