In regard to: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A few questions about setting up...:
I want to use puppetlabs-stdlib and /etc/facter/facts.d to create a set of local facts. Some of these facts come in variable quantities. I would like to stack these up into a delimited string. I can deal with that. On thing about your responses that puzzles me is the repeated mention of facts going from the agent to the master. What is that about, please ? I am looking at facts local to the agent. My understanding is that all the "Magic Behind the Curtains" about puppet happens on the agent.
That part is at least partially incorrect. Catalog compilation happens on the master. This means that the master has to know all the facts for each client, so that it can correctly build the catalog. The client gathers the facts and ships them to the master, so the master can build a catalog and ship the final result back to the client for application. Note also that this means that all functions run on the master too. See: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/agent_master_basic.html though I've actually seen better diagrams of the communication, that's the one I'm finding right now. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 -- 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.