On Jul 27, 3:30 pm, scott <mcco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a newbie attempting to get a custom fact distributed to clients.
> I've followed the instructions
> athttp://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AddingFacts
> and based my first fact on a simple recipe.
>
> I'm having at least one problem and possibly more.
>
> 1) Puppet/facter fails to load the custom fact, complaining that "non-
> sh interpreters are not currently supported"
> 2) Puppet seems to be loading the fact twice (though that may be
> because of the above).
[...]
> And I've put test_fact.rb in /etc/puppet/modules/custom/plugins/facter/
> test_fact.rb:
> ----------
> # cat modules/custom/plugins/facter/test_fact.rb
> # test_fact.rb
> ## Return symbolic network name based on eth0 subnet.
>
> Facter.add("test_fact") do
> confine :kernel => :linux
> ipaddress=%x{/sbin/ifconfig eth0}.chomp
> iparray = ipaddress.split(".")
> netw = iparray[0]+"."+iparray[1]+"."+iparray[2] #I never
> claimed to be a ruby programmer
> netname = case netw
> when "192.168.4" then "siteA"
> when "10.1.1" then "siteA"
> when "192.168.88" then "siteB"
> else "Unknown"
> end
>
> netname
> end
[...]
> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
I think I can. It doesn't look like you have accurately followed the
custom fact instructions you referenced. Your custom code should be
wrapped in "setcode do [...] end", as in the example.
Also, I think you'll find that your code doesn't do what you want, for
"/sbin/ifconfig eth0" returns a lot more information than just the
host's IP address.
Also also, on my linux systems, facter 1.5.6 discerns standard facts
"ipaddress" and "ipaddress_eth0". Using one of these, you may be able
to get away without a custom fact at all, instead defining "netname"
as a standard Puppet variable and initializing it based on one of
those facts.
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