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Puppet Dashboard with Multiple Puppet Masters

May 26th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Mike Zupan’s blog has a nice how to on installing puppet’s dashboard on CentOS 5, following it I was able to get the dashboard up and running with ease.  Since I have two puppet master’s that I’d like to report to the dashboard I found you can easily accomplish this without a full dashboard install on each master.

You just need to:

  1. Copy over ‘puppet_dashboard.rb’ with a modified HOST line to the other host.
  2. Modify /etc/sysconfig/puppetmaster.
  3. Turn on reporting on the clients.
  4. Restart puppetmaster.

Since the puppet_dashboard.rb is just making an HTTP post to the dashboard server, it can be coming from anywhere.

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