Puppet Reporting and Monitoring - Couverture souple

Duffy, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783981423 ISBN 13 : 9781783981427

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

An easy to follow guide with extensive examples to explain Puppet's reporting capabilities to facilitate effective implementation of Puppet in the real world as a reporting tool. If you are a Puppet developer or a system administrator using Puppet, and you want to extend your expertise to manage and optimize your server resources, then this book is for you.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Create insightful reports for your server infrastructure using Puppet

About This Book

• Learn how to prepare and setup Puppet to report on a wealth of data
• Develop your own custom plugins and work with report processor systems
• Explore compelling ways to utilize and present Puppet data with easy-to-follow examples

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Puppet developer or a system administrator using Puppet, and you want to extend your expertise to manage and optimize your server resources, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Set up Puppet for reporting
• Utilize the built-in report processors to report, analyze, and alert
• Learn how to find and install custom report processors
• Create your own custom report processors
• Generate reports using PuppetDB's powerful API
• Create feature-rich dashboards using Puppet and Dashing

In Detail

Starting with the very basics of Puppet, Puppet Reporting and Monitoring will guide you through configuring additional reports and creating new, feature-rich reports using the comprehensive Puppet tool. Packed with practical examples and precise instructions, this book is all you need to start exploring Puppet reports.

You will then learn how to create custom reports and finally understand the best way to present and utilize multitudes of data obtained from different servers under management.

You will learn how to use the built-in report processors and will also gain hands-on experience in creating your very own report processors. With this book, you will learn how to optimize its features such as asynchronous data storage and catalog compilation. You will also delve into using open source tools such as Graphite and Dashing to make attractive and informative dashboards quickly and easily.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Duffy

Michael Duffy has been working in systems administration and automation for more years than he cares to remember, and is the founder of Stunt Hamster Ltd.; a small but perfectly formed consultancy that helps companies, both small and large, deliver fully automated and scalable infrastructure. He has consulted for companies such as O2 and BSkyB, delivering design, automation, and monitoring of infrastructure for products that serve millions of users. Michael is a keen advocate of DevOps methodologies and is especially interested in using automation to not only deliver scalable and reliable systems, but also to make sure that people can see what is actually going on under the hood when using reporting tools. If given the chance, he will happily spend hours telling you how fantastic it is that people from the development and operations fields can finally talk and go to the pub together.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783981423
• ISBN 13: 9781783981427
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible