Puppet users - Dec 2007 - Any magic to the name ''memory'' in templates?

I tried using it in a template:
 
<%= memory %>
 
and it put "0" in my file
 
when i switched the variable name to the_memory, it worked
 
Eugene Ventimiglia
Director of Systems
GridApp Systems
e: eventi@gridapp.com
o: 646 452 4081
 


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On Dec 21, 2007 9:29 AM, Eugene Ventimiglia <eventi@gridapp.com>
wrote:
> I tried using it in a template:
>
> <%= memory %>
>
> and it put "0" in my file
>
> when i switched the variable name to the_memory, it worked
What is your memory variable? Is that set manually in the manifest, or
are you trying to get the memory size from facter?

facter | grep memory
memoryfree => 602.52 MB
memorysize => 1001.94 MB

Here''s a bigger snippet to illustrate

define vmserver::create_vm ($disk_size = "8Gb" ,$memory =
"1024") {
    $vm_memory = $memory

#... snipped

    file { "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual
Machines/nfs/${name}/${vmxname}.vmx":
        ensure  => present,
        mode    => 755,
        replace => false,
#       source  => ''puppet:///files/vmware/rhel4.vmx'',
        content =>
template(''/etc/puppet/files/vmware/rhel4.vmx.erb''),
        require => File["/var/lib/vmware/Virtual
Machines/nfs/${name}"]
    } 
#... snipped
}

and the template:

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
displayName = "<%= name %>"
guestOS = "rhel4"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

memsize = "<%= vm_memory %>"
#memsize = "<%= memory %>"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "<%= vmxname %>.vmdk"

... I''ve edited it as shown, and it works, but the resulting file
contains



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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:52 AM
To: Puppet User Discussion
Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] Any magic to the name ''memory'' in
templates?

On Dec 21, 2007 9:29 AM, Eugene Ventimiglia <eventi@gridapp.com>
wrote:
> I tried using it in a template:
>
> <%= memory %>
>
> and it put "0" in my file
>
> when i switched the variable name to the_memory, it worked
What is your memory variable? Is that set manually in the manifest, or
are you trying to get the memory size from facter?

facter | grep memory
memoryfree => 602.52 MB
memorysize => 1001.94 MB
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