Thanks Gary and Nan for the information. I find puppet/mcollective/ factor trio intriguing and I think I'll try to make it work in my scenario.
On Feb 1, 7:06 pm, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Dustin Little <dlit...@toyatech.net> wrote: > > Hoping to get some insight from the community. Can puppet/mcollective/ > > facter collect/store facts about hosts that are not actually running > > puppet? I see that custom facts can be gathered via shell scripts. > > Might this be used to build host resources and obtain facts? Also how > > well do puppet/mcollective/facter function when the puppet client and > > puppet master are separated by firewalls with only http/https access? > > Puppet uses REST, so you can run puppet master on 443 to work around > firewalls. However content filters might not like the self signed > certs and block access. I've had issues with things such as websense > in the past where exceptions have to be added depending on how much > the environment is locked down. > > 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-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.
