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May I please ask again for some assistance with the question below? I hope somebody can help me. Thanks, Ed Greenberg -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Using custom facts in Puppet Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:14:06 -0600 From: Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org> Reply-To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com On 11/16/2010 09:33

Hi All Background: I am running Puppet to configure ESX 3.5 servers by NFS mounting the Puppet binaries and configuration from a shared server. This is to ensure VMware don''t come back refusing support for installing non standard software on the server. # ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2009-04-08 patchlevel 160) [i686-linux] # facter -v 1.5.5

Hi, I''m following http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules in order to use a custom fact. My modules looks like: # ls manifests/modules/network/ manifests plugins # ls manifests/modules/network/plugins/facter/primaryint.rb manifests/modules/network/plugins/facter/primaryint.rb as is said in doc. Then: Turn on pluginsync and specify factpath, so that the facts

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:

We''re running puppet 2.7.11 and facter 1.6.1. We''re at a point where we need to start having some custom facts for our environment but we''re not sure the best way to go around it, so I''m looking for feedback from the community. I''ve setup custom facts with facter now and have successfully polled these and also proven that the puppet clients have

Hi, I''ve noticed that defining multiple facts in one file is possible, and puppet can make use of them correctly, but when trying to call with facter --puppet they are not shown, do I need something special to make them work as any other single custom fact? Master is running 2.6.7 This is a custom fact with two facts in it: [modules/foobar/lib/facter/foobar.rb ] require

I have written a custom puppet fact using a ruby script. It is very simple - it just adds a string to a fact. However I have written a module but it appears to me that the custom fact has been applied to all my machines without me specifying any node definitions. When I run a puppet agent --test --noop, I see the custom fact appear in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter. Info: Loading facts in

I''ve added some custom facts to my Puppet setup but they aren''t being displayed by facter. I''ve tested them and they work correctly when run manually (and I''ve also tried a number of those listed on the wiki) but they aren''t included in facter''s output. I am using the default settings for factdest and factpath and the facts are being copied

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I read that there is several problems about custom facts on this list. However, none is serving my task exactly so I start another. (Topic »custom facts in legacy puppet 0.24.[89]« is the might be the same issue but that gets no answer.) My problem is that I have to serve clients with different versions of puppet. The systems running ubuntu

Hi I''m trying to add extra facts to facter. The puppetd is running on Debian Etch Amd64 as Xen 3.1 guest. I''ve follow the Wiki on adding the facts. First I used relative path in the manifest and added "factsync=true" in client''s puppetd.conf. And then tested it with "puppetd -vt". But no matter what i tried, this error came: File paths must be fully

Facter 2.0.0rc1 is a feature release candidate with bug fixes, features and other improvements. Facter 2.0 is designed to accompany the upcoming Puppet 3.0 release and has breaking changes from Facter 1.6.x. Facter 2.0 is not backwards compatible with Puppet 2.6 or 2.7. It includes contributions from the following people: Chris Price, Daniel Black, Daniel Pittman, Garrett Honeycutt, Gary Larizza,

Hello! I''ve been trying to use facts from Facter in a custom function. I''ve been following Matthew''s entry in the wiki (http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WritingYourOwnFunctions). What i''m seeing is that Facter[''fqdn''].value is always returning the fqdn of the puppetmaster host. I was expecting the fqdn of the client host.

I don''t get it. I just wrote a simple test custom fact in ruby (ugh, I hate ruby) and was able to access it as a variable on the client side. However, it doesn''t appear in the facter output. Is is supposed to? Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to

possibly related to (or the same as) issues 4830 and 2244, i''m getting errors when adding a custom fact and provider to a module to propagate to clients. am i missing something here? i tried the workaround of adding a fileserver.conf to the master (referenced below and in the tickets) with no change. thanks for any help. here''s a pile of details: puppetmaster 2.6.9 is running

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, I need to remove a custom fact from facter. How to do this? For now, I set the environment variable FACTER_customfact = something but would like to get rid of it permanently. Thanks, Werner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Hi. I''d like to use exception handling in my custom facts. For example, in plain Ruby: begin buildno = '''' bcrelease = open("/etc/BCrelease") while (line = bcrelease.gets) line = line.chomp buildno = $1 if line =~ /^Build:\s+(\d+)/ end bcrelease.close print "#{buildno}\n" rescue print "No

Hello, I''m trying to add an environment variable as fact like this : #export $FACTER_test="infof" #facter | grep test test => infof But my fact don''t synchronize with puppet master. I don''t see it in / var/puppet/yaml/clientfile.yaml If I want this works, I''ve need to start puppet like this : #puppetd -vt --factsync but factsync''s

I have a small environment with a single puppetmaster and puppetdb on the same node that I get sporadic "Failed to submit ''replace facts'' command" errors from nodes. It isn''t consistent about which nodes are causing the error and I can''t find anything else going on at the same time on either the master or the agent that these errors happen. Here

Hi, i''ve set up my puppet on several clients and today i noticed that the facts are loaded twice by the clients. I took strace to get the list of loaded fact file and i found that puppet seems to load the same fact files twice: chdir("/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter") = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 6 info: Loading facts in vserver