You need your custom fact script in: <module>/lib/facter/<script>
On 29/06/2012, at 7:37, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:04:09 PM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I would make facts on the nodes for these. Let say $role and $subrole > and then just use those in your hierarchy with %{role} and %{subrole} > thus allowing you to set variable for all those machines there. > > That's simple enough, and the docs [1] for creating a custom fact are mostly > straightforward. > > The one thing I am unclear on, in the "plugins in modules" [2] document, it > says that if you are going to put your custom stuff in a module (such as in > their example, named 'custom') it says to follow the standard layout, and > that you have to have a manifests/init.pp. > You need your custom fact script in: <module>/lib/facter/<script> > If all that is actually in the thing is lib/facter/myfact.rb, what do I put > in the manifests/init.pp ? Is it enough for it to exist but be empty? > You would normally put your module definitions in init.pp but you should have the following as a minimum: class <module name> { } > The document was somewhat unclear on this, or I missed it when reading. > > [1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html > [2] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/NKCt1qaRwiEJ. > 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. -- 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.
