Reference: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/format_report.html
Start with this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'puppet' if defined?(ARGV) filename = ARGV.first if defined?(filename) report = YAML.load_file(filename) print "Report for : " puts report.host print "Started : " puts report.time print "Log count: " puts report.logs.size print "Metrics count: " puts report.metrics.size print "Resource Status count: " puts report.resource_statuses.size print "Status: " puts report.status report.logs.each do |logg| puts "LOG ---------------------------------------------" if logg.file print "File: " puts logg.file end if logg.line print "Line: " puts logg.line end print "Level: " puts logg.level print "Message: " puts logg.message print "Source: " puts logg.source print "Tags: " puts logg.tags.join(" ") print "Time: " puts logg.time end report.resource_statuses.keys.each do |kk| if report.resource_statuses["#{kk}"].change_count > 0 puts "RESOURCE STATUS ====================================" puts "#{kk} " report.resource_statuses["#{kk}"].events.each do |line| print "property: " puts line.property print "message: " puts line.message print "name: " puts line.name print "status: " puts line.status print "when: " puts line.time end end end puts "-------------------------------------------------" end end ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Good luck. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Cracraft" <smcracr...@me.com> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] get a *structured* version of the puppet agent output Who will share a report generator for the yaml reports generated by puppet so that we do not have to reinvent wheel after wheel after wheel!!!!!! > On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:08 AM, "R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stuart Cracraft" <smcracr...@gmail.com> >> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:02:42 PM >> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] get a *structured* version of the puppet agent >> output >> >> What we want is not more complexity, but more simplicity! >> >> I could go into >> >> puppet config print reportdir >> >> and then to its >> >> /var/lib/puppet/reports >> >> then to the host directories of interest and grep out message. >> >> But that seems a very sorry state of affairs. >> >> Puppetmasters speak UP! > > you do not need to grep out anything, as I showed you there is a ruby API > for accessing this data. > > If you use PuppetDB it will also be able to store this information and it has > APIs for extracting these logs in a structured manner. > > API access is about as much as you can hope for I think. Your alternatives > are > to write a logger plugin for Puppet that outputs JSON, I've done this and it > was not clear sailing. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/cHpZlKkPmr4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1024951816.609.1385492893475.JavaMail.zimbra%40devco.net. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/6E1AA223-0401-485C-8E4C-AABF12FB2291%40me.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/877739462.4751612.1385494040183.JavaMail.root%40sz0126a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.