Puppet dashboard is a useful tool in terms of reporting and actually seeing what’s going on with your puppets. The things get a bit tricky when you have hundreds of nodes reporting every 5 minutes or so and running dashboard on a single host.

I assume you are using dashboard already and you looking into scaling it, although I’ll describe how to install it from scratch. This post will help you set up 2+ dashboard nodes with one node running MySQL db and shared spool/ directory.
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