[Puppet Users] Timestamp of last puppet run?

2012-04-10 Thread psyber
Looking for ideas here: I wanted to provide the last run time for puppet in the MOTD and thought it would be easy to do as a fact and it was. I have that working but as a side effect puppet-dashboard shows all hosts as changed because the MOTD file changes with each factor run. I took out that

Re: [Puppet Users] Timestamp of last puppet run?

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Larizza
Hey, In Puppet Enterprise, we have a cronjob that runs every 15 minutes that does a `facter --yaml` and redirects to a file on disk. This file is what MCollective reads for fact information. You could also add the --puppet flag that will use Puppet's $vardir for custom fact information. Puppet