On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Nick <oinksoc...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > Hi, > > A problem I've run into during my first attempts at writing manifests, is > knowing what possible facts are available, and for a given fact, what values > my > manifest might encounter. > > A classic one is the possible values of $operatingsystem, but it applies to > all > sorts of facts. > > Of course, I know that not all facts can be enumerated, but I had expected > there > be a catalog of common facts and their values somewhere, but there seems not > to > be. The Facter page [1] and API documentation [2] give rather scanty > information about anything, yet alone list any values. Ultimately I've been > forced to search out the source code and infer the values from that. > > Then there is the question of how consistent the list of facts and their > values > are from version to version of Puppet/Facter. That is even harder to discover > from the source code. > > How do other people tackle this problem? >
It is straightforward to get a complete list of facter values in your environment. Here's a ruby script that collects all facts gathered in puppet master /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts directory and provide a summarized view: http://pastie.org/1317925. fact: {"value"=>"# of system reporting value"...} Sample output: facterversion: {"1.5.7"=>5, "1.5.1"=>10, "1.3.5"=>1} ... lsbdistid: {"Debian"=>6} lsbdistrelease: {"testing/unstable"=>2, "testing"=>3, "5.0.3"=>1} ... operatingsystem: {"Debian"=>11, "CentOS"=>5} ... It's not pretty, but should give you all values in your environment. If the # of systems doesn't add up, then it's a fact that's not present on some systems. In the example above there was 16 servers, but lsb* only have 6 server reporting, because lsb_release wasn't install on all systems. Thanks, Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
