Hey John,
After changing 'stringify_facts' to false on both master and client, things
are working as expected.
Thank you again for the insight; not sure how I missed that one.
Cheers,
Mike
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 6:12:40 AM UTC-8, jcbollinger wrote:
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> On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 5:00:12 PM UTC-6, Mike Reed wrote:
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>> Running 'facter -p' on the client side (assuming we have two video cards
>> installed), I receive a result of: video_card_id => ["17c2", "17c2"]
>> This result means to me that I was returned two strings, each of which
>> are contained within a typical ruby'ish collection.
>>
>> Now, if I try and reference the first item in the collection - like below
>> - using video_card_id[0] within a puppet manifest, I get an error
>>
>> notify { "Installing driver version: ({$::video_card_id[0]})" : }
>>
>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
>> SERVER: ::video_card_id is not a hash or array when accessing it with 0.
>> [...]
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>> Both server and client are running: Puppet 3.6.2/Facter 2.1.0
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> Structured facts were a forward-looking feature in Puppet 3.6, not enabled
> by default. When they are not enabled, Puppet squashes all fact values to
> strings. You must configure both the agent and the master to support
> structured facts, by setting the stringify_facts configuration option to
> false. The docs discuss this
> <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.6/reference/config_important_settings.html#recommended-and-safe>,
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> but they don't say much more than the above.
>
>
> John
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>
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