Update facts without applying catalog.

[Sergii Alieksanov]

Hello!

Is it possible to force puppet agent to send facts to master (puppetdb) while it is locked (puppet agent --disable) or run in --noop mode?

The reason to have such feature is pretty simple: having up-to-date node specs with puppet agent in locked state. 

Thanks!

Cheers,

Sergii

[asq]

you can disable it with prerun_command - then it will fail late (after retrieving catalog from master). ie.

[training ~]# FACTER_fooism=true puppet agent -t --prerun_command=/bin/false
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for training
Error: Could not run command from prerun_command: Execution of '/bin/false' returned 1:
[training ~]# grep fooism /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/yaml/facts/training.yaml
    fooism: "true"

if you write your own prerun_command script you can also include a message (just write to stdout) which will be included into puppet report.