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Hi all, I am creating a recipe for rhel boxes which needs to determine what type of install is present (server or client). I thought I would use the facter fact lsbdistid for this purpose but when I run "facter lsbdistid" from the command line nothing is returned. If I just run facter and grep for lsbdistid, what I am looking for is returned. Does anyone know why this might be?

I see the instructions for creating custom facter recipes here: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Adding_Facts and in this thread, James Turnbull suggests that Facter might some day support other languages besides ruby: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/8c127ae8898d3bcf/c5ca551b77c4eb67?lnk=gst&q=facter+perl#c5ca551b77c4eb67 He writes:

Hi, I am trying to use Hiera in puppet 3 and I have two nodes that both need the same configuration. In this case they are two web servers which have the same apache configuration. Rather than creating two seperate hiera files for node1.yaml and node2.yaml is there a way to group these by role (e.g. webserver.yaml)? I want to avoid duplicating the configuration if possible and keep the data

Morning All I''m trying to use Hiera with Puppet 3.0 to streamline some of my module configuration... However I''m having issues using the ''*%{::clientcert}*'' variable as part of the hierarchy... Currently, my *hiera.yaml* file looks like: --- :backends: - yaml - json :yaml: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata :json: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata

Hi folks, I''m using this plugin https://github.com/ripienaar/facter-facts/tree/master/facts-dot-d and I can''t get a fact out of a simple shell script. YAML TXT JSON works well My little shell script testfact.sh looks like #!/bin/bash echo "TEST=NOT WORKING" made it executable chmod +x testfact.sh made a puppet agent -t to read the new fact BUT $facter --puppet

I''m trying to load custom facts via /etc/facter/facts.d/* according to instructions on http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#structured-data-facts I must have missed a setting somewhere because I get nothing. The first clue may be that /etc/facter didn''t exist. I had to create it manually. Is there a setting or search path I need to create? Details: puppet

Hi all, We''re writing a few scripts at the moment that could really make use of Facter, however the vast majority of them team (including my self!) are not proficient in Ruby, however they are highly proficient in other languages such as (dare I say it!) Python. Is there (or are there any plans to!) release bindings for other languages to enable facts to be used in scripts other

Greetings, we are trying to setup puppetdb, nut our clients get the following error: Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue: Warning: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not retrieve facts for lxa7t.unix.lan: Failed to submit ''replace facts'' command for lxa7t.unix.lan to PuppetDB at puppetdb:8081: Connection refused - connect(2) Info: Retrieving

Hi, I have a puppetmaster - agent architecture. I have a module for the vsftpd configuracion in the agents. The configuration of the value ''max_per_ip'' in the agents may vary. This is a line of the manifest: $max_per_ip = hiera(''max_per_ip'',10) I want to specify different values for each agent using hiera. The problem is I am only able to specify the

Hi everyone, Here are the manifest I am using: In file ''*modules/test/manifest/init.pp*'': class test ( $test = undef, ) { notice("Here is the message: ${test}") } Now in ''*modules/saas/manifests/client/sudo.pp*'': class saas::client::sudo { class { ''test'': } } Now in ''*manifests/sites.pp*'': import

Hi, i recently updated our windows 2008 r2 servers to puppet 3.3.0 . Im getting the following error* (only on our exchange 2010 db servers)*ever since: LevelMessageSourceFileLineTimeerrCould not retrieve local facts: undefined method `gsub'' for nil:NilClassPuppet13.09.2013 15:12 CESTerrFailed to apply catalog: Could not retrieve local facts: undefined method `gsub'' for

I''ve just filed http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ticket/1182 with the aim of making it easier to add fact pickup from dmidecode in manufacturer.rb. As the ticket says, I think that the fact sections, keys and values shouldn''t be hardcoded in manufacturer.rb, but should be stored in a configuration file somewhere. This means that a given stable installation of Puppet can be

Hi guys, I have a box that needs to identify itself to the puppetmaster as something different from the FQDN. I added certname to the agent configuration before the first run, but it doesn''t seem to be sufficient. The certificate was generated for the FQDN, and the host appears in the dashboard as the FQDN, and the node name used to evaluate the manifest is also the FQDN. I would

I am working on building a facter tag based node classifier similar to https://github.com/jordansissel/puppet-examples/tree/master/nodeless-puppet/. However, I have run into an issue where I cannot use puppet''s require file ability to push the yaml file containing the facts file to the client because it would require two runs of puppet to pickup changes. Consequently, I have written into

Dear all, This is a continuation of another thread, but I think the question diverged enough to create a new one. I have a hiera hierarchy like this: :hierarchy: - %{fqdn} - %{secundary_group} - %{primary_group} - %{productname} - all And I need to define the secondary/primary groups as facts, on the nodes. Gary has suggested me to use plugins, that they will provide the facts before

Hello all, I am running puppet 2.7.1 with mongrel and an apache proxy. I have been seeing an issue where it appears that the puppetmaster is completely ignoring any facts that are sent to it. When a client connects, any configuration that relies on facts shows those variables as being empty strings. (I have been testing this with a simple notify resource that prints out the IP address and the

Hi, I''m rookie puppet user and I trying to establish simple Server-Client connection on configuration: Server: *Fedora F18*, Puppet 3.1.1 (installed by yum), Ruby 1.8.7 Client: *Debian 6.0.6*, Puppet 3.1.1 (installed by guide<http://shapeshed.com/setting-up-puppet-on-ubuntu-10-04/>), Ruby 1.8.7 Server sign client certificate with success but now I''m struggle with apply

OK. What did I booger up this time ? agent.myexample.org and puppetmaster.myexample.org are the same server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # puppetd --no-daemonize --onetime --debug --noop debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderUser_role_add: file roleadd does not exist debug: Puppet::Type::User::ProviderDirectoryservice: file /usr/bin/dscl does not

Hello, I''ve mcollective 1.2.1 with puppet 2.6.12 on rhel5.6, facter 1.6.2 setup from http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/FactsFacterYAML. Now I''ve create a custom fact in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ customer_status.rb. On the client; Running facter customer_status works. Running ''puppet agent --test'' works, customer_status

Hi there, I''m running into an problem which I can resolve. It is bugging me for couple of days now. Goal: CentOS 6.4 freshly installed incl puppet 3.2.3 and I want to install puppet master, puppetdb, mod_passenger & apache with "puppet apply". So when this is complete, I should have an puppet master server running so I can create new hosts etc. So this is the command