Re: [Puppet Users] External Facts on Windows with Powershell

Justin Stoller
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:45:03 -0000

This only works in Facter 1.7, what do you get when you run `facter
--version`?

Have you double checked
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#enabling-powershell-scriptsto
ensure that the powershell scripts are enabled?

 - Justin



On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Grant Trevor <grant.trevor@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I''m trying to follow the steps on
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html in regards to
> declaring External Facts using powershell.
>
> I''ve created a simple .ps1 file outputing a single key pair eg:
Write-Host
> "mykey=123456", however if I run Facter from the Command
Prompt(with
> puppet) my value isn''t present.
>
> Also if I run ''puppet apply MyModule.pp --verbose''  I
don''t receive any
> information about it attempting to load facts.
>
> I''ve also tried a simple txt file with no luck.
>
> I''m using Puppet 2.7.17 installed via chocolatey, could this be a
> configuration issue, do I need to enable External Task parsing?
>
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