User:Synthead/Puppet Dashboard
From the Puppet Dashboard website:
- The Puppet Dashboard is a web interface and reporting tool for your Puppet installation. Dashboard facilitates management and configuration tasks, provides a quick visual snapshot of important system information, and delivers valuable reports.
Setting up a database for Puppet Dashboard
Setting up a database for Puppet Dashboard is the same as most other Ruby on Rails projects:
- Create a MySQL database.
- Create a MySQL user and grant privileges.
- Create a database.yml file that matches your database.
- Run db:migrate from within the Rails root.
You will need to decide on a database name and a Puppet Dashboard MySQL user and password. The user (and password) will never be used for authentication to the end-user. This guide assumes the database name puppet_dashboard with a username of puppet_dashboard and a random password, as described below.
Create a MySQL database
First, make sure that a MySQL server is installed and running. Log into MySQL as the root user, like so:
$ mysql -u root
Or, if you have set a root password:
$ mysql -u root -p
When logged in, create a database for Puppet Dashboard:
mysql> create database `puppet_dashboard` default charset utf8;
Create a MySQL user and grant privileges
As mentioned, the MySQL user for Puppet Dashboard will never be available to the end-user, so it is a good idea to make a robust password. This is easily done by using pwgen (available in the mirrors as a part of the pwgen package). To get a randomly-generated, 50-character password, run it like this:
$ pwgen -N 1 -s 50 s5ODn3iaX97mv5Ky6VmW2Z4rBitX1JxWgFNAFQbdtTrcytM8vL
This will be the password used for the MySQL user. While at a MySQL prompt, run the following:
mysql> grant all on `puppet_dashboard`.* to 'puppet_dashboard'@'localhost' identified by 's5ODn3iaX97mv5Ky6VmW2Z4rBitX1JxWgFNAFQbdtTrcytM8vL';
Your database is now configured.