Warron,
Hiera is a lot easier than it seems! If you join the puppet slack (
https://slack.puppet.com), I'm sure we could help you get it set up quickly
and properly. It will probably solve a dozen other problems you didn't even
know you had, too :)
Rob Nelson
rnels...@gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:01 AM, warron.french <warron.fre...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Rob, I am not quite (personally/professionally) ready for Hiera yet. I
> also need to learn more about ERB templates; which I did a little research
> on about 2 hours ago.
>
> Honestly, what you provided above to me, because I am not ready/fully
> understanding yet, has no context for me to implement your idea. Which, if
> I did, I would gracefully accept your input and get it done. :-/
>
> Thanks for this suggestion. I simply am not there yet.
>
> Sincerely, thank you.
>
> --------------------------
> Warron French
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Rob Nelson <rnels...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You could create a parameter called `$manage_audispatch = false` and in
>> hiera, set `profile::whatever::manage_audispatch: true` in hiera for
>> qualified devices (probably osfamily of RedHat, os/release/major of 6).
>> Your code conditional is very simple (`if $manage_audispatch { .. }`),
>> abstract out the complexity with hiera.
>>
>>
>> Rob Nelson
>> rnels...@gmail.com
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:43 AM, warron.french <warron.fre...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I need to develop a conditional that will allow me to deploy audit.rules,
>>> auditd.conf, and *IF (and only if) the machine is a Server* audispatch
>>> configurations.
>>>
>>> The ausyscalls for RHEL6 are different from RHEL7, so I require the
>>> ability "deploy" audit.rules.el7 into the correct place, and
>>> audit.rules.el6 into the appropriate place for RHEL6 (they aren't the same
>>> place).
>>>
>>> I am working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux only; not any of the variants.
>>>
>>> So, I figured I would develop a CASE statement based on the following
>>> strings; hopefully derived from Puppet builtin facter facts:
>>>
>>> RHEL-6-Server
>>> RHEL-6-Client|RHEL-6-Desktop
>>> RHEL-7-Server
>>> RHEL-7-Client|RHEL-7-Desktop
>>>
>>> The problem is I cannot derive a string that looks like this in any
>>> order of the hyphenated parts, or without for that matter.
>>>
>>> I found 1 facter that has the parts I need, that might enable me to
>>> generate the string(s) I need; but I don't know how to tease out the values
>>> from the particular facter = *os*.
>>>
>>> The facter, *os*, offers something I can use (puppet-facter syntax not
>>> specifically used below):
>>>
>>> - os/release/major would give me a 6 or a 7;
>>> - os/distid
>>>
>>> Can someone help me generate these strings; even if looked like
>>> RHEL-Server-6, that would be something I could work with in my class.
>>>
>>> Oh! Red Hat offers a file called */etc/system-release-cpe*; but they
>>> didn't bother to enforce consistency in either the values as formatted or
>>> the order in which certain data is arranged within the same variables.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> --------------------------
>>> Warron French
>>>
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