Thanks Ohad and Nan. Your responses were helpful On May 5, 12:37 am, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, rjl <rjlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Presently, I am managing my external data via CSV files. These files > > > are manually changed as required. > > > Are you using extlookup function to retrieve the CSV configuration data? > > > > I would like to have a UI that updates a database (probably postgres) > > > and then have puppet retrieve its external data directly from the > > > database. > > > You will need to write either a custom function that performs data > > lookup. Something along the line of: > > # connect to postgres > > # sql query using lookup criteria (typically certname) > > # return data hash > > > Or you can write a custom external node classifier (ENC): > >http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html > > > or you can use one for the common one (foreman, dashbord) foreman does > > support postgres as well... > > Ohad
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