Exploring Puppet Enterprise Console

Puppet Labs have focused their time on improving Puppet Dashboard in the enterprise release of Puppet, and to start to differentiate it from the previous dashboard, they have renamed it Puppet Enterprise Console. Although superficially similar to each other, the two projects have very different offerings. Puppet Enterprise Console offers integration with MCollective, and PuppetDB offers out-of-the-box, enhanced features such as Event Inspector and Live Management. Puppet Enterprise Console forms the core of the enterprise product and offers a central place of management and a solid reporting tool, and increasingly, is the place to orchestrate your infrastructure. This dashboard is shown in the following screenshot:

In terms of layout and basic reporting capabilities, Puppet Enterprise Console is very similar to the open source Puppet Dashboard, and if you are migrating from Puppet Dashboard to Puppet Enterprise Console, you should find yourself at home...