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On 9 March 2010 07:58, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some of us have been talking about this for a while and I'm thinking
> about knocking this out soon.
Yeah this has come up a few times and Paul and RI and I discussed it a
while back...
We sort of put it on the back-burner to get Facter fixed.
> Which if it exists, any script in there, which is chmod+x, when run,
> will return JSON, and return any number of facts (in hash format).
> If there are no scripts in there, or if the directory is not present,
> or they aren't executable, those parts will just be skipped and facter
> keeps
> on working like it does today.
We should be aiming for Nagios-style plug-in output. So whatever gets
executed outputs something like:
{
"facts": {
"network": {
"interface": "eth0",
"ip": "192.168.0.1",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
},
"disk": {
"name": "sda1",
"size": "1000",
}
},
}
This makes it:
a) simple
b) a "standard" for integration
c) Allows simple parsing, validation, cleansing and integrity routines
on incoming data.
Cheers
James
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