On Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:32:44 AM UTC-6, cko wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to solve the following problem:
>
> I wrote a module that matches the "$ipaddress" fact for certain IP subnets
> (like 20.20.2... or 30.30.2..). Depending on the subnet, the variable
> $proxy-server changes.
>
> The problem is, that some of our physical machines have a random number of
> interfaces connected to many different subnets. In some cases the
> $ipadddress fact returns the correct subnet, lets call it "production
> server lan" and some don't.
>
> Is there any way to make puppet check every available NIC for a specific
> subnet/ regex? Something like this:
>
> if $ipaddress_eth*** =~ /^20\.20\.\..*$/ {
> $proxy-server = foo
> }
>
Puppet DSL does not support this directly, but it sounds like a good
candidate for a custom function. You could do a proof-of-concept with an
inline template, even, but I recommend a bona fide function for your final
implementation.
John
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