Resource Type: notify

Sends an arbitrary message, specified as a string, to the agent run-time log. It's important to note that the notify resource type is not idempotent. As a result, notifications are shown as a change on every Puppet run.

notify { 'resource title':
  name     => # (namevar) An arbitrary tag for your own reference; the...
  message  => # The message to be sent to the log. Note that the 
  withpath => # Whether to show the full object path.  Default...
  # ...plus any applicable metaparameters.
}