Am Donnerstag, den 26.11.2020, 11:46 +0100 schrieb Helmut Schneider:

> Am 26.11.2020 um 10:19 schrieb 'Dirk Heinrichs' via Puppet Users:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 26.11.2020, 09:37 +0100 schrieb Helmut
> > Schneider:
> > 
> > > as /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/puppetserver/reports/ is filling
> > > up, what
> > > are those reports used for?
> > 
> > Errh, for checking what's going on in your environment?
> 
> Who does so? A system? A program? Me? If the latter I can disable 
> reporting and enable if required?!

In our case, a human being (/me). Don't know what your requirements
are, though...

> > > I read that I can purge them but want to understand the purpose
> > > of 
> > > those reports before doing so. I use puppetdb
> > > if that is important.
> > 
> > Yes, you can purge them after a certain amount of time, a good
> > measure 
> > would be one or two weeks (maybe you might want to know when
> > things 
> > started to break). There are also some report processors available
> > out 
> > there to ease reading. We, for example, use 
> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theforeman.org__;!!Obbck6kTJA!Oi8kifWHR-0ppwfccXymT-L00MoC8yOFOxgIougtvl_M7xh6IbEUy8nF0uCsaPKC$
> >   
> > <
> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theforeman.org__;!!Obbck6kTJA!Oi8kifWHR-0ppwfccXymT-L00MoC8yOFOxgIougtvl_M7xh6IbEUy8nF0uCsaPKC$
> > > for this (it's a bit overkill, I know, but it's 
> > still the best tool when it comes to visualize Puppet reports).
> 
> I used foreman but not anymore. Total overkill.

Yes, said so.

> Are the reports required for puppetdb?

Don't think so. We store our reports in Foreman's DB only ("reports =
foreman").

> Can I remove "store" and puppetdb keeps working?

Yes. From the documentation:

"By default, Puppet uses the store report processor. You can enable
other report processors or disable reporting in the reports setting."

HTH...

        Dirk
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