March 2017
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It can be very helpful when debugging problems if you can print out information at a certain point in the manifest. This is a good way to tell, for example, if a variable isn't defined or has an unexpected value. Sometimes it's useful just to know that a particular piece of code has been run. Puppet's notify resource lets you print out such messages.
Define a notify resource in your manifest at the point you want to investigate:
notify { 'Got this far!': }
When this resource is applied, Puppet will print out the message:
notice: Got this far!
In addition to simple messages, we can output variables within our notify statements. Additionally, we can treat the notify calls the same ...
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