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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
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Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

by Michael Duffy
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
186 pages
4h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Creating Your Own Report Processor

In previous chapters, we've taken a look at some of the report processors that are shipped with Puppet and also some of the fantastic third-party plugins that have been developed to add new functionality. Now, it's time to show you how to go about making your own report plugins.

In this chapter, we're going to take a look at the following topics:

  • Creating our first report processor
  • Creating our own custom e-mail alerts
  • Logging events into MySQL
  • Raising issues with Atlassian JIRA

As with any Puppet plugin, our language of choice will be Ruby. You should be familiar with Ruby if you want to get the most out of this chapter; however, don't worry if you're not a Ruby guru; the examples use extremely basic code. ...

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