Puppet users to get visual cues for troubleshooting systems

October 15, 2013

Puppet has added some visual pizzazz to its namesake open source IT automation software, providing a graphic event inspector for administrators to see at a glance where trouble spots in their systems reside.Puppet Enterprise 3.1, available Tuesday, also provides cloud provisioning for the Google Compute Engine, can manage the legacy Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL) 4.0 distributions and can provide a way to reboot machines running Microsoft Windows from over a network.One of the major headaches system administrators can face is trying to troubleshoot a specific problem within a complex and interconnected infrastructure of IT equipment and associated software. Puppet's new event inspector promises to show where trouble spots reside, minimizing the amount of time needed to scan through megabytes of log files."The event inspector offers you an organized, at-a-glance view of any change events in your infrastructure and provides instant access to detailed, actionable information," wrote Puppet software engineer Lindsey Smith in a blog post announcing the release of Puppet Enterprise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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