Puppet users - Nov 2011 - ENC-LDAP - or facts from local file on server?

Hi,

For every server, I would like to have add some extra data - facts as:
indate (date in service)
asset,
location, and a few others

First I was thinking about adding custom facts, that are read from a
file on the server (ks)
The benefit: all data is available on the host.

With all facts I can then populate some fields in the monitoring
system, our custom asset management system,
and have an export to excel sheets (sigh...)

But maybe this is the wrong approach and I have to put this data in
LDAP? Any idea?

Sincerely,
PieterB

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Hi,

Depends on what you consider the source of truth and what you use to generate
the facts. The main idea here is that this information can go stale.

We use the fqdn to generate our location/role facts and pull asset info from the
Dell openmanager tool (service tags, and so on and even purchase/warranty
information).

The next step isn''t done yet but then we plan to pull that data out and
stick into cmdb. I don''t see why you couldn''t populate LDAP
with that info. We don''t use LDAP for this though.

This won''t cover all your requirements and questions but
that''s how we plan to tackle this. Hope it helps.

Den

On 18/11/2011, at 21:58, Pieter Baele <pieter.baele@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For every server, I would like to have add some extra data - facts as:
> indate (date in service)
> asset,
> location, and a few others
> 
> First I was thinking about adding custom facts, that are read from a
> file on the server (ks)
> The benefit: all data is available on the host.
> 
> With all facts I can then populate some fields in the monitoring
> system, our custom asset management system,
> and have an export to excel sheets (sigh...)
> 
> But maybe this is the wrong approach and I have to put this data in
> LDAP? Any idea?
> 
> Sincerely,
> PieterB
> 
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