/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/facter/manufacturer.rb has it on my system.
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 06:02:09PM +0530, Mukul Malhotra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get the serialnumber from my system through "facter | grep serialnumber"
>
> Also this is possible whether puppet picks the serialnumber fact instead
> of hostname fact from the nodes.
>
> Can you provide the serialnumber.rb fact syntax
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:32 PM, John Kennedy <[1]skeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No one should be able to change the hostname through the fact (they can
> override any fact for a one time occurrance but that is not a pernanent
> change)
> As to how you can get a serialnumber fact, we would need to know how you
> get the serial number from your system to begin with. Then you write the
> fact around that. You then put your rb file in with all the other fact
> rb files and puppet will find it.
> John
>
> John Kennedy
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:17, Mukul Malhotra
> <[2]smilemukul2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> �
> Hi,
>
> Actually I want that nobody in my network can change the hostname as
> some has already changed the hostname of their node so
> I want to restrict a check that nobody in the network or outside
> network can change the hostname as they are already provided the sudo
> access as per requirement. Also all the nodes in the network are
> configured with serialnumber.
>
> Can you elaborate more that how "serialnumber" custom fact can be
> written & the same will be loaded through puppet for every node in the
> network.
>
> Thanks
> mac01
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM, jcbollinger
> <[3]john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 5, 1:39�am, mac01 <[4]smilemukul2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>
> > I am trying to override a hostname.rp from path: *
> > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter* as,
>
> >
> > Facter.add(:hostname) do
> > � confine :hostname => "serialnumber"
> > � setcode do
> > � � Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('cat /sys/power/states')
> > � end
> > end
> >
> > Is the fact code correct as I want puppet to pick serialnumber
> instead of hostname from facter ?
>
> You are trying to confine the 'hostname' fact based on the value of
> that same fact. �I don't see how that could possibly work. �Either it
> will throw Facter into an infinite loop, or that version of the fact
> will just never be chosen.
>
> There is probably a better approach to your problem than redefining
> the hostname fact. �Not knowing what your actual problem is, I can
> only speculate, but you might be better off creating and using a
> "serialnumber" custom fact. �You might also want to look into Puppet's
> "certname" parameter.
>
> John
>
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