Schema of dependency tree?

[Jakov Sosic]

Hi

Is it possible to somehow list or view dependency tree of the classes,
packages, services, and other resources for some host?

I would like to polish my setup so that the first puppet finishes
everything. Right now I have problems that I have to have 2 or 3
conncurent runs after installation of blank machine to get it up to
working order. Obviously I didn't set up all the dependencies between
resources correctly. It would be cool if I could get some kind of output
like pstree, or even gui graphs if it's possible.


Thank you.


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[James A. Peltier]

Add graph = true to the agent section on your puppet client. Then look in /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs. You can then use dot to generate images of the dependencies.

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[Jakov Sosic]

On 07/26/2012 02:04 AM, James A. Peltier wrote:

> Add graph = true to the agent section on your puppet client.
> Then look in /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs. You can then use
> dot to generate images of the dependencies.

Thank you. FYI, the command is:

dot -Tpng resoruces.dot -o resources.png


One problem is that it generates very wide images (for example in my
case 22'000 x 500 px).

Is there a way to make it something like 500 x 22'000, so that
dependencies go from left to right and not from top to bottom? It would
be much easier to read such a graph...

[Anatoliy Lisovskiy]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Jakov Sosic <jso...@srce.hr> wrote:

On 07/26/2012 02:04 AM, James A. Peltier wrote:

> Add graph = true to the agent section on your puppet client.
> Then look in /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs.  You can then use
> dot to generate images of the dependencies.

Thank you. FYI, the command is:

dot -Tpng resoruces.dot -o resources.png

Great, thanks for the tip!

Do puppet have some ready to use feature to collect all that nice graphs on the server?

 

[Jakov Sosic]

On 07/26/2012 02:04 AM, James A. Peltier wrote:

> Add graph = true to the agent section on your puppet client.
> Then look in /var/lib/puppet/state/graphs. You can then use dot
> to generate images of the dependencies.

One problem though, I would like the graphs to be vertical and not
horizontal. It's easier for me too analyse vertical graphs... It's way
hard to do a horizontal scrolling on a 22'000 x 500 graph :-/



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Jakov Sosic
www.srce.unizg.hr

[Bryan Hunt]

Is it possible, or are there meta-data, or an external solution, which allow one:

To filter the output, in such a way as to only display a subset of the graph, such as Users?