Re: [Puppet Users] Any solutions for server-side facts?

2014-06-21 Thread Throwe, Jesse
It also might be a cheap way of doing it, but if your looking at stuff at the node level anyway you can leverage LDAP. All objects in LDAP in puppet 3.x are treated as top scope variables. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Matthew Hyclak wrote: > I was thinking about this not too long ago myself.

Re: [Puppet Users] Any solutions for server-side facts?

2014-06-20 Thread Matthew Hyclak
I was thinking about this not too long ago myself. It seems a little silly, but creating a custom fact (let's stick with room number) that gets pushed out by a paramaterized class in puppet does what you're looking for I think. The ENC defines the room number, but by having that show up in the cus

Re: [Puppet Users] Any solutions for server-side facts?

2014-06-20 Thread Atom Powers
I think what you want is the ENC. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html You may need to write the ENC script yourself, but basically it will pull facts in from any data-source you want. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Fine, Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > As I get more into this and l

[Puppet Users] Any solutions for server-side facts?

2014-06-20 Thread Fine, Thomas
Hi, As I get more into this and look at what puppet dashboard (and whatever I replace it with, sigh) can do and what we've been doing, it's great for simple inventory tracking. Except that if it's good at that I might as well get all the information in one place, like the room location, the user