Re: [Puppet Users] puppet questions

2012-02-01 Thread Dan White
On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Nan Liu wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Dustin Little wrote: >> Hoping to get some insight from the community. Can puppet/mcollective/ >> facter collect/store facts about hosts that are not actually running >> puppet? I see that custom facts can be gathered v

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet questions

2012-02-01 Thread Nan Liu
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Dustin Little wrote: > Hoping to get some insight from the community. Can puppet/mcollective/ > facter collect/store facts about hosts that are not actually running > puppet? I see that custom facts can be gathered via shell scripts. > Might this be used to build ho

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet questions

2012-02-01 Thread Gary Larizza
So, You can run Facter independently of Puppet, yes. You can have Facter export a file to YAML by doing `facter --yaml > file.yaml` and then use that file with MCollective (MCollective would use that YAML file full of fact data to respond to queries that are filtered according to fact information

[Puppet Users] puppet questions

2012-02-01 Thread Dustin Little
Hoping to get some insight from the community. Can puppet/mcollective/ facter collect/store facts about hosts that are not actually running puppet? I see that custom facts can be gathered via shell scripts. Might this be used to build host resources and obtain facts? Also how well do puppet/mcollec

[Puppet Users] Puppet Questions

2009-02-10 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi guys, I've got a few questions regarding Puppet. We're currently investigating it for deployment at the ISP where I work. Here's some questions that have been raised; Why the pull architecture? How can this be achieved using a push, what are the limitations? What are the implications of usi