[Puppet Users] What's the best way to deal with multiple OS's

2011-09-30 Thread Jeff Falgout
We're in the situation of dealing with multiple operating systems (and will likely add another) and I'm quickly realizing that building logic in the manifest to deal with the differences in Red Hat i386 vs Red Hat x86_64 vs SuSE i586 vs SuSE x86_64 vs Mac is getting tedious. For instance, in the ss

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple includes in a module class not "included"

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Falgout
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Nan Liu wrote: > > > > > I suspect I'm doing something incorrect or misunderstanding something. > > Puppet classes are singletons, even if you include a class multiple > times it only realize the resources defined in the class once. > Ahhh - ok, makes sense. >

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple includes in a module class not "included"

2011-04-21 Thread Jeff Falgout
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > The class: > > from rpm_gpg/manifests/init.pp > > class rpm_gpg { > > include > > "rpm_gpg::keys::spacewalk2010", > > "rpm_gpg::keys::jpackage" > > } > > > > root@devlucid:/home/nigel/src/puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] How Does the Interaction Between Facter, Clients, and the Server work

2010-05-19 Thread Jeff Falgout
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jeff Falgout > wrote: > > Group - > > > > I'm putting a presentation together for $work (a large .gov) and I want > to > > make sure I get my facts (pun intended) st

[Puppet Users] How Does the Interaction Between Facter, Clients, and the Server work

2010-05-19 Thread Jeff Falgout
Group - I'm putting a presentation together for $work (a large .gov) and I want to make sure I get my facts (pun intended) straight ... Are the following steps for Facter-Client-Server interaction correct (I have a feeling not): 1. Client puppet run is initiated (via regular schedule, puppetrun,

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet on SLES

2009-06-17 Thread Jeff Falgout
Justin - On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM, wrote: > I currently manage approximately 150 hosts with a handful of ZLM policies, > but I've had one too many policies lost by the management server to keep > using this solution. > > I'm wondering if anyone has any experiences (good or bad) they'd be

[Puppet Users] Re: Facter - the future - your input needed

2009-02-13 Thread Jeff Falgout
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jeff Falgout wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Ross McKerchar > wrote: > > >> As I'm not great at ruby, I find writing facts and distributing them to do a >> really simple thing can be a bit painful. Along these lines what

[Puppet Users] Re: Facter - the future - your input needed

2009-02-13 Thread Jeff Falgout
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Ross McKerchar wrote: > As I'm not great at ruby, I find writing facts and distributing them to do a > really simple thing can be a bit painful. Along these lines what about: > As Luke put it for python - ruby makes my eyes bleed - I struggle with Ruby a lot

[Puppet Users] Re: Offtopic: package inventory tracking

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff Falgout
Hi John, On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:56 AM, John Philips wrote: > > Anybody know of such a system, or are willing to share your home-brewed > solution? > Check out MachDB ( http://www.machdb.org/ ) It's still in alpha development but I've talked with Nathan and it still is an active project. I'