I accomplish this through a way that may fit your needs. I use facters for
it. Here is one for looking for Apache on Debian-based distro:
Facter.add(:apache_exists) do
confine :osfamily => "Debian"
setcode do
if Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("dpkg -l | grep apache2 | grep -v
> apache2-utils | grep ^ii")
"true"
end
end
end
This shows up in PuppetDB and Puppet Dashboard as "apache_exists", and
"true" for systems that have it.
Here is one for looking for the version of SEP on a Windows server:
> Facter.add("app_sep_version") do
>
> confine :osfamily => "Windows"
>
> setcode do
>
> Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('C:\Windows\sysnative\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
>
>> -Command "& {Get-ChildItem
>> hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | ForEach-Object
>> {Get-ItemProperty $_.pspath} | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq \"Symantec
>> Endpoint Protection\"} | ForEach-Object -process {$_.DisplayVersion } }" ' )
>
> end
>
> end
>
>
That one reports the version of SEP to both Puppet DB, and Puppet Dashboard.
I hope this helps,
Brian
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:47:04 PM UTC-7, Robin Powell wrote:
>
>
> So I've been using puppet for a long time, and the one thing I've
> never solved to my satisfaction is a way to have a single source of
> truth that acts as both instructions to puppet *and* as a system
> inventory that I can use for general opertaions (i.e. "how many
> tomcat hosts do we have?").
>
> When Hiera came along I shifted to that, believing that it was the
> right solution here, and I've managed to hack together something
> that works, but it's pretty inelegant. The reason is that to get a
> proper inventory out of hiera requires collating all the hiera data
> from the point of view of each host, so that all the hierarchical
> processing is correct, and then mushing all those results together.
> I've got a system to do that, but it's pretty hacky.
>
> Is there some better way of combining a general inventory system and
> puppet? Is this a Puppet Enterprise sort of thing?
>
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