Features
Version 29 (Ohad Levy, 08/10/2011 08:33 am)
| 1 | 17 | Paul Kelly | h3. Browse your puppet hosts inventory(facts), latest status (puppet reports) and manifests(puppet classes) |
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| 2 | 5 | Ohad Levy | |
| 3 | 1 | * View your hosts based on various criteria (classes, Environments, hardware facts etc) |
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| 4 | 1 | * Import Puppet facts (e.g. if you are not using Storeconfig, you can still have all of your hosts inventory). |
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| 5 | 7 | Ohad Levy | * See host status based on puppet reports (E.g. what has changed, failed skipped etc) |
| 6 | 8 | Ohad Levy | * See a Dashboard like view for your nodes |
| 7 | 14 | Ohad Levy | * Trigger remote [[puppetrun]] via the web console |
| 8 | 1 | * [[Summarized E-Mail Reports]] - e.g. no more need for puppet's tagmail etc |
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| 9 | 18 | Ohad Levy | * [[Puppet class browser]] |
| 10 | 22 | Paul Kelly | * Manage user access via [[roles and permissions]] |
| 11 | 5 | Ohad Levy | |
| 12 | 1 | h3. Define your nodes setup through Puppet [[External_Nodes]]. |
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| 13 | 13 | Ohad Levy | |
| 14 | 13 | Ohad Levy | * use the web interface to define your nodes setup, avoiding the need for node statements in your manifest |
| 15 | 15 | Ohad Levy | * define special variable per nodes (or per group, domains etc) , so you don't need to put them as part of your manifests. |
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| 17 | 15 | Ohad Levy | h3. [[Unattended installations|Provision your servers]] (currently supported Kickstart, Jumpstart and Preseed) hands free |
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| 19 | 6 | Ohad Levy | You can use Foreman to install your servers for you! currently *tested* operating systems are: |
| 20 | 23 | Ohad Levy | * RedHat (CentOs) 3, 4 and 5 and 6. |
| 21 | 23 | Ohad Levy | * Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
| 22 | 23 | Ohad Levy | * Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10 |
| 23 | 28 | Ohad Levy | * Debian Lenny, Squeeze |
| 24 | 29 | Ohad Levy | * Solaris 8, 10 |
| 25 | 29 | Ohad Levy | * OpenSUSE 11.4 |
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| 27 | 6 | Ohad Levy | That would also include everything which is required to get puppet running on your host (e.g.): |
| 28 | 5 | Ohad Levy | * PuppetCA management |
| 29 | 5 | Ohad Levy | * TFTP management |
| 30 | 24 | Ohad Levy | * DNS management |
| 31 | 24 | Ohad Levy | * DHCP management |
| 32 | 27 | Ohad Levy | * Virtual machine management |
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| 34 | 9 | Ohad Levy | h3. Active Directory or [[LDAP Authentication]] |
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| 36 | 8 | Ohad Levy | h3. Audit Log |
| 37 | 8 | Ohad Levy | |
| 38 | 8 | Ohad Levy | * See who changed what in your hosts |
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| 40 | 11 | Ohad Levy | h3. [[Query Interface]] |
| 41 | 8 | Ohad Levy | |
| 42 | 8 | Ohad Levy | * Feed external tools information about your hosts based on inventory or puppet class values |
| 43 | 8 | Ohad Levy | * Allow puppet to query inside the manifest, allowing to have mini storeconfig like collection. |
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| 45 | 25 | Ohad Levy | h3. Extensive restful [[API]] |
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| 48 | 10 | Ohad Levy | Any additional feature requests are welcome - please create a new issue |
