facter doesn't load from /ect/facter/facts.d

[Larry Fast]

I'm trying to load custom facts via /etc/facter/facts.d/*  according to instructions on 

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html#structured-data-facts

I must have missed a setting somewhere because I get nothing.  The first clue may be that /etc/facter didn't exist. I had to create it manually.

Is there a setting or search path I need to create?

Details:

puppet 3.0.1

facter 1.6.14-1.el6

centos 6

I created 4 files in /etc/facter/facts.d:   y1.yaml, t1.txt, j1.json and r1.rb

Each file has it's appropriate format yaml, text, json, ruby.

facter --debug     says nothing about these files

running puppet agent the facts from these files do not appear

[Peter Meier]

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> Is there a setting or search path I need to create?
>
> Details:
>
> puppet 3.0.1 facter 1.6.14-1.el6

I don't think this is supported in facter 1.6. One used to have the
stdlib module for it until facter 1.7 should be released, which will
provide that.

But maybe I'm wrong.

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[Keith Burdis]

From that page: "External facts are only available in Facter 1.7 and later."

I expect you need to either upgrade or install the stdlib module.

  - Keith

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[Larry Fast]

> From that page: "External facts are only available in Facter 1.7 and later."

> I expect you need to either upgrade or install the stdlib module.

Thanks for that.  I knew I missed something.  ... but tell me more about the stdlib option.  I'm a bit leery of depending on the first RC of facter 1.7.  Do you know that stdlib has some answer to this problem or was it just a speculation?

Thanks,

Larry

[Dan White]

I can speak directly on this !

You want http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib/3.2.0

This has the /etc/facter/facts.d/* Magic Pixie Dust in it.

I just went thru a brief panic attack when I updated to Facter 1.7 and puppetlabs-stdlib 4.0.2 !
The changelog says "Remove facter_dot_d for compatibility with external facts” and I had to do some rapid searching and verifying that stuff put into /etc/facter/facts.d/* still worked. Short answer: They do !

As far as details on stdlib, here you go:

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabsstdlib-puppet-labs-standard-library/

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabs-stdlib-puppet-labs-standard-library-part-2/

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabsstdlib-puppetlabs-standard-library-part-3/

I find it very useful. Hope you do as well.

[Larry Fast]

Thanks Dan,

I shall hunt down the elusive pixie dust!  BTW, do you know where to look for a compatibility tree between stdlib and puppet version?

Cheers,

Larry

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[Dan White]

On the linked page ! First two sub-headings are “Versions” and “Compatibility”