Foreman

Browse your puppet hosts inventory(facts) and latest status (puppet reports)¶

• View your hosts based on various criteria (classes, Environments, hardware facts etc)
• Import Puppet facts (e.g. if you are not using Storeconfig, you can still have all of your hosts inventory).
• See host status based on puppet reports (E.g. what has changed, failed skipped etc)
• See a Dashboard like view for your nodes

Define your nodes setup through Puppet External_Nodes.¶

Provision your servers (currently supported Kickstart, Jumpstart and Preseed) handsfree¶

You can use Foreman to install your servers for you! currently tested operating systems are:

• RedHat (CentOs) 3, 4 and 5.
• Fedora 10, 11
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Sparc Solaris 8, 10

That would also include everything which is required to get puppet running on your host (e.g.):

• PuppetCA management
• TFTP management

Active Directory or LDAP Authentication¶

Audit Log¶

• See who changed what in your hosts

Query information about hosts¶

• Feed external tools information about your hosts based on inventory or puppet class values
• Allow puppet to query inside the manifest, allowing to have mini storeconfig like collection.

This list is growing fast.. :)