[Puppet Users] Dashboard/Site.pp interfunctionality

On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Art wrote:
I have a few questions on how the Dashboard and site.pp file work together and would appreciate any help that could be given. First a little about my setup. I am using the Learning Puppet VM provided by the Puppet Labs website. I have copied it 3 times to create a configuration of 1 master and 2 agents. The master and agents all show up in the Dashboard and I can get responses from them using the Live Management tools on the Dashboard as well as using the command line tools. I have created some basic modules following various examples in books and the Puppet website. Now for the questions:

1. Currently modules I have created and assigned to nodes using the site.pp file are not shown on the Dashboard. Is this normal or should the Dashboard be picking them up?
2. Modules I assign to nodes though the Dashboard do not show up in the site.pp file. Is this normal? Where does the Dashboard save assigned modules, if not in the site.pp file?
3. Which system takes precedence? Does the site.pp file override what is on the Dashboard? Does the Dashboard override the site.pp file? Do they work in conjunction or does only the Dashboard apply when Puppet is run through the Dashboard and the site.pp apply then Puppet is run thought the command line.

Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Art

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On Friday, 11 January 2013 18:09:14 UTC, Jo wrote:

Really quick answer: there's no interaction between Dashboard and Site.pp
that I'm aware of. Think of the Dashboard as a place to visually display
puppet reports.

This is functionality where you can define things in the Dashboard and use
that as an ENC in your puppet manifests. So Site.pp could learn from
Dashboard, but there's no way for Site.pp to inform the Dashboard. If you
really want it to show up there, then you need to define it all in the
Dashboard and then reconfigure Puppet to use the Dashboard as an ENC.

Google: "puppet dashboard ENC"

Post-Note: keep in mind that PuppetLabs has deprecated the Dashboard and
won't be doing any future development, so this may not be a good investment
of your time.

On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Art wrote:

I have a few questions on how the Dashboard and site.pp file work together
and would appreciate any help that could be given. First a little about my
setup. I am using the Learning Puppet VM provided by the Puppet Labs
website. I have copied it 3 times to create a configuration of 1 master
and 2 agents. The master and agents all show up in the Dashboard and I can
get responses from them using the Live Management tools on the Dashboard as
well as using the command line tools. I have created some basic modules
following various examples in books and the Puppet website. Now for the
questions:

1. Currently modules I have created and assigned to nodes using the
site.pp file are not shown on the Dashboard. Is this normal or should the
Dashboard be picking them up?
2. Modules I assign to nodes though the Dashboard do not show up in the
site.pp file. Is this normal? Where does the Dashboard save assigned
modules, if not in the site.pp file?
3. Which system takes precedence? Does the site.pp file override what is
on the Dashboard? Does the Dashboard override the site.pp file? Do they
work in conjunction or does only the Dashboard apply when Puppet is run
through the Dashboard and the site.pp apply then Puppet is run thought the
command line.

Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Art

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On Friday, January 11, 2013 1:09:14 PM UTC-5, Jo wrote:

Really quick answer: there's no interaction between Dashboard and Site.pp
that I'm aware of. Think of the Dashboard as a place to visually display
puppet reports.

This is functionality where you can define things in the Dashboard and use
that as an ENC in your puppet manifests. So Site.pp could learn from
Dashboard, but there's no way for Site.pp to inform the Dashboard. If you
really want it to show up there, then you need to define it all in the
Dashboard and then reconfigure Puppet to use the Dashboard as an ENC.

Google: "puppet dashboard ENC"

Post-Note: keep in mind that PuppetLabs has deprecated the Dashboard and
won't be doing any future development, so this may not be a good investment
of your time.

On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Art wrote:

I have a few questions on how the Dashboard and site.pp file work together
and would appreciate any help that could be given. First a little about my
setup. I am using the Learning Puppet VM provided by the Puppet Labs
website. I have copied it 3 times to create a configuration of 1 master
and 2 agents. The master and agents all show up in the Dashboard and I can
get responses from them using the Live Management tools on the Dashboard as
well as using the command line tools. I have created some basic modules
following various examples in books and the Puppet website. Now for the
questions:

1. Currently modules I have created and assigned to nodes using the
site.pp file are not shown on the Dashboard. Is this normal or should the
Dashboard be picking them up?
2. Modules I assign to nodes though the Dashboard do not show up in the
site.pp file. Is this normal? Where does the Dashboard save assigned
modules, if not in the site.pp file?
3. Which system takes precedence? Does the site.pp file override what is
on the Dashboard? Does the Dashboard override the site.pp file? Do they
work in conjunction or does only the Dashboard apply when Puppet is run
through the Dashboard and the site.pp apply then Puppet is run thought the
command line.

Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Art

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Joshua Sinfield wrote:
Hi Jo,

Can you confirm where it's stated the Puppet Dashboard is deprecated? I've
just recently been installing it at work, and have not seen this anywhere on
the PuppetLabs websites?