⁠7.2. Reports

The Reports page displays a list of reports of Puppet runs executed on the hosts that the installer manages. You can access this page at any time from anywhere in the user interface by clicking Monitor → Reports.
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The Reports page

Figure 7.2. The Reports page

The reports table displays a list of the number of actions performed on individual hosts during a report interval. The time at which a report was collected is displayed in the Last report column, and actions are divided into a number of categories as outlined below:
  • Applied: The number of changes that were applied to resources on the host, such as files, directories, or user accounts.
  • Restarted: The number of resources, such as services, that were restarted.
  • Failed: The number of actions that were executed but did not complete successfully.
  • Restart Failures: The number of resources, such as services, that were scheduled to restart but did not restart successfully.
  • Skipped: The number of actions that were scheduled, but were skipped due to a problem scheduling the Puppet run.
  • Pending: The number of actions that were scheduled to be applied, but had not yet been performed at the time the report was collected.

⁠7.2.1. Changing the Report Interval

Change the interval by which events are reported in the user interface.
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Procedure 7.1. Changing the Report Interval

  1. From the main title bar, click Administer → Settings.
  2. Click the Puppet tab.
  3. Click the edit icon next to the value of the puppet_interval setting.
  4. Enter a new report interval in minutes.
  5. Click Save.
You have changed the interval by which events are reported in the user interface, and information on hosts that the installer manages is collected in accordance with the newly specified interval.

⁠7.2.2. Deleting Reports in a Batch

You can delete all reports older than a specific number of days if those reports are no longer needed.
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Procedure 7.2. Deleting Reports

  1. Log in to the machine on which the user interface is installed as the root user.
  2. Delete all reports more than [days] number of days old: 
    # foreman-rake reports:expire days=[days]
All reports older than the specified number of days are deleted.

⁠7.2.3. Deleting Reports Individually

You can manually delete individual reports that are no longer needed.
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Procedure 7.3. Deleting a Report

  1. From the title bar in the main screen of the user interface, click Monitor → Reports.
  2. Click Delete for the report to delete.
  3. Click OK when prompted.