----- Tim Mooney <tim.moo...@ndsu.edu> wrote: > 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
Ah! Enlightenment ! Many thanks, Tim, for the clarification. It looks like I can still create custom facts using /etc/facter/facts.d that are, say, a comma delimited string of multiple values. Anything that wants to use these custom facts would be aware of this and would be built to handle it. Thanks to all on the list for en-clue-ing this relatively clueless one. While I am occasionally clueless, I strive never to seem clue-proof. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) -- 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.
