In the 3. part we configurate the puppet clients to reports at the end of every configuration run. This reports are stored on the puppetmaster. Configurate client Enable reporting on the puppet client “/etc/puppet/puppet.conf“: [puppetd] report = true Configurate puppetmaster Activate reporting on the puppetmaster”/etc/puppet/puppet.conf“: [puppetmasterd] templatedir=/var/lib/puppet/templates reports = store,log,rrdgraph Note: See reporttypes below. (reports) [...]

Installing Google Chrome browser on ubuntu: Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project. First add the following sources to your “/etc/apt/sources.list” depending on your ubuntu version: For Hardy: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main For Intrepid: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src [...]

Now we want to create a clear strukture for the puppet configuration files. The config in Part 1 is only a simple example to test the configuration. In this example we want to create the user “sebastian” and “demo” on all servers with a specific password. 1. Templates ”/etc/puppet/manifests/templates.pp”: This files defines various classes of [...]

A Post-It note for me … Importing an UTF-8 encoded MySQL Database export file with MySQL command line interface: mysql -D databasename -h hostname -p -u db_username –default_character_set utf8 < sqlfile.sql If you don’t add the “–default_character_set utf8″ flag you will get very funny characters in your database