On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM, R.I.Pienaar <r...@devco.net> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > At the end of the day, this all seems to be a limitation with > > mcollective. It can only read facts from one source, either facter > > or a yaml file. I believe facter is the current source, and people > > have written scripts that rely on that. I can write a custom fact, > > but.... then the issue becomes that I don't know if it's possible > > for a custom fact written in ruby and dropped into > > $module/lib/puppet can access variables defined in the node. > > > > using the yaml file built by a template method that was linked to > any variables you set at the node level, top scope or in the class > that creates the yaml file is put in the yaml file. > > Therefore you can use these files in mcollective filters, so if you > just set variables in the node to do whatever you want they will show > up in the yaml file and be usable. > > As the wiki says: > > "plus it lets you get any in-scope variables (for example, parameters from > your external node classifier) available as mcollective filters for free." > > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/FactsFacterYAML > > Mcollective thus gets a combination of facts, variables etc all in one > place. You can even create many yaml files and it will read the lot for > you, one local the node, one by puppet, maybe even with facter -y etc. > > and if all this fails, you can trivially write your own fact source that > does whatever you want. > > -- >
So, I think I had used this approach once before. But, now.... after implementing that, yes, facts.yaml seems to have all the facter variables as well as variables defined in the node, which is generally what I want. However, running mc-inventory shows no facts, and doing something like this: mc-service puppet status -F "hosttype=proxy" where hosttype=proxy does appear in the yaml file, returns no data. I have set the factsource to yaml in mcollective's server.cfg and restarted it. Douglas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
