Thanks Daniel. I appreciate your commentary. The main difference it would appear from this and tagmail is that tagmail constantly sends numerous emails. This script is run on-demand or out of cron and harvests the stdout of all the last run reports into one summary email/report. One email when you want it and how you want it vs. hundreds or thousands every hour. I agree, this would be way too much noise and why I didn't like the idea of tagmail. I only want a summary once in a while, not a constant flow of them.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: > Tim Lank <timl...@timlank.com> writes: > >> I've developed a simple mini-script system that can be setup on a >> puppetmaster to send the stdout of the last reports for each client to a set >> of email addresses. I find it convenient to get these results in my inbox >> so that I can view them at a glance, review at leisure, forward on, cut & >> paste elsewhere, etc... > > Isn't this what the tagmail system does? > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/report.html > >> recommendations, suggestions, comments welcome. > > The main comment is a general sysadmin one: make sure you only generate noise > when something goes wrong, not when it goes right. Otherwise puppet will > rapidly overwhelm you with reports and you will never notice the problems. :) > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
