On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:01:03PM -0400, Peter Berghold wrote: > Hi, > I'm studying the custom facts examples and I noticed that facts tend to be > scalars. (Perl speak) > Are they ever arrays? For instance I want to write a custom fact that > parses the /etc/fstab and returns the mounted file systems as a fact to > allow amanda to be automagically configured to back up my servers. > Thoughts?
That's a "try it and see", if you have the correct version: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/2.0/fact_overview.html#writing-structured-facts However, for having bits of one server configure bits on another, you may get some mileage out of exported resources: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_exported.html https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_collectors.html https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html More specifically, that your random nodes would export resources consisting of "amanda configuration fragment", whether files or something else. Then your amanda host would collect these resources to have its list of things to back up. You will need somewhere to store exported resources and/or facts, you will likely want this thing: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/ Also dig around on the forge, it has interesting things to read over. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/pdxcat/amanda (At my current place we export ssh host keys, which are collected elsewhere to list hosts available to mcollective clients. Same generic idea.) > -- > > Peter L. Berghold [1]salty.cowd...@gmail.com > > [2]http://blog.berghold.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [3]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [4]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv3ZWHYsZbaJXPje%3D4UCAsArETrmcfSAjp1502UXxPwk%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit [5]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:salty.cowd...@gmail.com > 2. http://blog.berghold.net/ > 3. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 4. > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAArvnv3ZWHYsZbaJXPje%3D4UCAsArETrmcfSAjp1502UXxPwk%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > 5. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20140825161941.GA3753%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
