What types of Information Can Puppet Automate?

[Angelika Modawal]

Hello,

 

We are considering using Puppet Enterprise to help us automate data about our Linux, Unix and Windows Servers.

 

What kinds of automated hardware data can we get from Puppet? Is there a straightforward list available of hardware specs available?

 

Thanks,

[Dan White]

Are you road-testing Puppet Open Source ?
The list of default facts that come out of facter is impressive

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Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

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[Angelika Modawal]

In the process.

 

I need at least a generic list of fields it can automate to understand if it is a viable solution for us. Do you know how I would get such list without downloading Puppet?

 

I can't due to admin rights restrictions.

[Dan White]

Here's a list of fact names (no values) from one of my systems with (I hope) all the custom facts removed

architecture
augeasversion
bios_release_date
bios_vendor
bios_version
blockdevices
broadcast_ip
domain
facterversion
filesystems
fqdn
hardwareisa
hardwaremodel
hostname
id
interfaces
ipaddress
ipaddress_eth0
ipaddress_lo
is_pe
is_virtual
kernel
kernelmajversion
kernelrelease
kernelversion
lsbdistcodename
lsbdistdescription
lsbdistid
lsbdistrelease
lsbmajdistrelease
lsbrelease
macaddress
macaddress_eth0
manufacturer
memoryfree
memoryfree_mb
memorysize
memorysize_mb
memorytotal
mtu_eth0
mtu_lo
mtu_sit0
netmask
netmask_eth0
netmask_lo
network_eth0
network_lo
operatingsystem
operatingsystemmajrelease
operatingsystemrelease
osfamily
path
physicalprocessorcount
processor0
processorcount
productname
ps
puppetversion
rubysitedir
rubyversion
selinux
serialnumber
sshdsakey
sshfp_dsa
SSHFP
sshfp_rsa
SSHFP
sshrsakey
swapfree
swapfree_mb
swapsize
swapsize_mb
timezone
type
uniqueid
uptime
uptime_days
uptime_hours
uptime_seconds
uuid
virtual

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From: "Angelika Modawal" <modawal....@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:48:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] What types of Information Can Puppet Automate?

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[Christopher Wood]

You can 'gem install puppet' as a regular user (from your rvm'ed gem) and then run facter as yourself. I've used gem-installed facter while testing 'puppet device' against a load balancer and everything puppet worked just fine.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:48:24PM -0800, Angelika Modawal wrote:
> In the process.
>  
> I need at least a generic list of fields it can automate to understand if
> it is a viable solution for us. Do you know how I would get such list
> without downloading Puppet?
>  
> I can't due to admin rights restrictions.
> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:02:19 PM UTC-5, Ygor wrote:
>
> Are you road-testing Puppet Open Source ?
> The list of default facts that come out of facter is impressive
>
> �Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
> elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.�
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
>

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> From: "Angelika Modawal" <[1]modawal....@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Puppet Users] What types of Information Can Puppet Automate?
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> Hello,
>  
> We are considering using Puppet Enterprise to help us automate data
> about our Linux, Unix and Windows Servers.
>  
> What kinds of automated hardware data can we get from Puppet? Is there a
> straightforward list available of hardware specs available?
>  
> Thanks,
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