I'd rather have the monitoring solution collect incoming facts that are already coming to a central location rather than reaching out to the nodes. I suppose a cronjob on the nodes could run facter, but still it seems redundant since Facter gets executed along with each Puppet run. Also, I plan on deploying the monitoring server on my Puppetmaster, so it's nicer to compare new fact values to old fact values on the same server, instead of having nodes constantly query PuppetDB to compare new fact values against old ones.
But yeah, if my proposed solutions involve patching the Puppet or PuppetDB codebase, I could see how your suggestion might be simpler. It just seems like better practice to leverage the facts that *are already coming in*. Can you give me an idea of what you're talking about with running facter node-side and comparing against values in PuppetDB? Thanks, Kent On Friday, August 24, 2012 10:29:28 AM UTC-7, Andy Parker wrote: > > Wouldn't having your monitoring tool watch the output of `facter > <factname>` on the nodes that are being monitored achieve what you are > looking for? That seems like it would be a pretty straightforward and > uncomplicated way of doing this. > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Kent Shultz > <kentm...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > EDIT: > > > > ”Id like to know the best way to collect new/incoming Fact values for a > node and compare it to old/previous values (i.e. from a node making a > puppet run)” > > > > I meant the last parenthetical bit to come after ”new/incoming fact > values” > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Developers" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-dev/-/JOZlrJsa0RIJ. > > To post to this group, send email to > > puppe...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-dev+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-dev/-/9xfAi0KIQCMJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
