I'm going to heartily +1 this. Ideally, we would be able to specify only those facts that we know we need and have the ability to blacklist facts that are harmful to our systems.
Also, custom facts that are removed from the server should be purged from the clients and server cache at the next run after removal. Trevor On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > We found out, the hard way, that version 1.7 of Facter adds facts for > mounted linux file systems. > > This is nice for normal servers. For a server hosting Oracle not so good. > We went from about 100 facts per server to well over 3,000 (our Oracle > boxes have quite a few volumes mounted). > > Of course, this choked our ENC (Foreman) having this many facts pumped > into it and required us to downgrade Facter to the 1.6 series. > > Is it possible to tell facter to ignore certain facts? Couldn't find a > config file for it and not sure how puppet tells it to gather facts. > > Would be useful so we don't have to remain at 1.6. > > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
