I wrote a mail a few days ago not to get any answers so I'll try and reformulate the question in different terms.
I need to collect several related "facts" on a server for later use within puppet. These "facts" are related. The puppet documentation seems to imply that the correct way to make puppet aware of new facts is to adapt facter and make it aware of these new custom facts. That seems fine but it also seems that all facter facts are single scalar values which does not fit cleanly with what I am trying to do. MUST facter facts be single scalar values which can be evaluated as such by $variable from within puppet? I'm running puppet on Linux and I want to store volume group names (the first column output of /usr/sbin/vgs) but also within each volume group the list of logical volumes (partitions, output of /usr/sbin/lvs) each one contains. I can think of other non-scalar values which it might be nice to use such as network interface names, and ip addresses of each interface. If these values are currently not known to puppet what's the best way of obtaining them so they can be used within the puppet configuration to configure other aspects of the system? Is it ok to somehow directly interface to Ruby to do this and if so how's this best done? Thanks for pointers and suggestions. Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
