On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Yushu Yao wrote:

> I am trying to implement some function tests. E.g. in my catalog for node B 
> there is LDAP client, however, I would like to do a test to see if the LDAP 
> server is already up and running. And decide if I want to apply the LDAP 
> Client or not. (This is a test on remote resource, I might also need to test 
> a resource local to the client, e.g. existence of a file, a service is 
> running, etc).
> 
> Maybe I can use custom facter for this?

You could do that, but a more puppet-y way to think about this is to decide 
what hosts ought to be servers and use puppet to start the service there. 
Puppet thinks you should be the boss of your machines.


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