Installing The Puppet Configuration Management Server Dashboard UI

This tutorial will walk through installing the Puppetlabs Puppet Dashboard, which is an open source dashboard UI for the Puppetlabs Puppet configuration management server which is used to apply configuration sets, or perform consistent installs of servers among other things to your organizations servers, or groups of servers.

Puppetlabs Dashboard Install Checklist:

Full Text Step By Step Tutorial:

[ayushmpb]

Great video, it has just saved a hell lot of time for me.

[Tayyab_Khan]

Tutorial is very help full.

Try using slides to list down the tasks. it will help your viewer to understand easily.

[smitjainsj]

Grt Job!!!! I liked them all and they are very useful!!! keep it up!!

[KAZAMAGIRI]

So cool.. Great job! could you please tell me whether we could add the nodes to a group as we do in puppet enterprise ?

If possible could you please make a video on custom facts.. I have been using them since a long time but the new facts aren't reflecting in the list when i type "facter -p  " in the terminal

[NareshChowdaryBatthula]

This Video is so great. It helped me in configuring dashboard. Thanks a lot. 

Can you please answer the below question.
Is there any restriction to Manage nodes in Puppet opensource dashboard?

[kartmann]

Hi. Thanks for posting the video. I have followed the instructions and able to get the dashboard up, but for some reason they stop reporting after 30 mins where as I can see the latest timestamp in reports dir.

Is there a place that I have to change a setting ?

[raduchereches]

hello, I am stucked with rake gems:refresh_specs which says: "DEPRECATION WARNING: Rake tasks in are deprecated. Use lib/tasks instead. (called from
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'gems:refresh_specs'
"

tried to copy tasks in lib/tasks but did not work. Have any idea for this ? Thanks

[apassionatechie]

Hi,
I have completed the whole installation but when i hit <server>:3000 it tells me 403 forbidden. I tried to add an index.html in the puppet-dashboard/public folder which was accessible. So there is no issue of permission. I cannot understand how will puppet redirect if it has no homepage in the directory. In the error log i get the following error: Directory index forbidden by Options directive:

[oscardamianarandaaviles]

Hello everyone
Could someone help me? I'm doing it in Windows instead of MAC and I have problems when I try to open "puppet.mydomain.local:3000" on the browser... any idea?

[kiransysadm]

Hi,
I went through in the video and having the same error. I am unable to see the dashboard, I get the apache2 Test page.

I have disabled my iptables and selinux but still I am getting the same error. Can anyone help me on this.

Thanks,
Kiran

[kaiserr]

Hi, I have followed all the steps 4 times and having the same error. It is working up to step 7. I can see the dashboard. But if I go further I get the apache2 welcome page.
If I follow the code in text format in formatccolon website for file then I got ServerAlias only used in <VirtualHost> error. Can anybody help me pls. Thanks :)

[VictorHugoBCoca]

I'm trying to install puppet dashboard on Ubuntu 14.04 and I can't install it because exist documentation for other distributions but not for Ubuntu, if someone know how to install it, please let me know! Thank you!

[davidalexander]

Hi! Thanks for the great video, but i am getting error while running puppet agent --test

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Error: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source(s) puppet://puppet/pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source(s) puppet://puppet/plugins
Info: Caching catalog for puppet.master.local
Info: Applying configuration version '1422910685'

any idea ?

Thanks in advance

[einarabelc]

I thought Chef was bad...until I tried puppet. You need a CM just to set it up correctly.