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Hi, are there any good ways of scripting an inventory of managed resources on all nodes? I''ve found the inventory script by R.I.Pienaar ( http://www.devco.net/archives/2010/02/26/what_does_puppet_manage_on_a_node-2.php) which does what I want but only locally on each client. Is there any native way of syncing the client_yaml data centrally or any other way of doing this? I need a script-friendly way of checking which clients have this or that configuration, i.e. "which ip addresses are managed by pup...

Is there a way to get a list of all the classes available from the puppet master? I have 2 goals for this - one is documentation in a human readable form, and the other is potentially importing that data into dashboard. I did find some info on the rest API (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_api.html#resource-types ) but I can''t make any sense of the output from it. Thanks.