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
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
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
