Re: Need help with dashboad configuration..

[Lunixer]

It does take some reading.

The main doc page[1] has information plus several resources[2] here and there.
Follow the instructions here[3] to install the puppetlabs repo so you can use yum.
When you do "yum install puppet-dashboard", it creates the unix account. Do "grep puppet /etc/passwd" and you'll see the account there.

[1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html
[2] http://www.how2centos.com/installing-puppet-dashboard-on-centos-5-5/
[3] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html

LL
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http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:10:20 AM UTC-7, Rajeev Iyer wrote:

Hi,

  I am new to this.

Can someone lead me to a step by step configuration for dashboard. The ones on the web is too confusing.

Like, it says we need to have an entry for puppet-dashboard in /etc/passwd. So how does that look like?

Rajeev

[Rajeev Iyer]

Thanks LL.

[Rajeev Iyer]

The doc says:

If you haven't installed Dashboard from a package, you must create a user and group for Dashboard and chown all its files to be owned by that user and group.

So, how should the entry look like:

Is there something specific?

Regards,

Rajeev

[fsalum]

I have configured Puppet Dashboard, Inventory Service and Reports correctly but I do agree the Dashboard/Inventory/Reports installation and configuration is very confuse on the site.

Any chance Puppetlabs will organize those docs and make they less confuse to follow ? :)