Using puppet for IT asset management of disconnected hardware

[Vladislav Geller]

Hi all,

Is there a standard way of dealing with systems (well, in reality any hardware) that is not actually part of the puppet deployment to keep track of it? I would like to store data such as each spare hard drive, CPU, Memory i have at a given location, however it's not connected. My understanding is that i can achieve this using facts terminus to query this data and an ENC to put it into the system.

However, since i would not like to maintain such a solution i'm thinking that there might be a project that deal with this particular scenario. Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

Thanks

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

I don't really see what puppet is supposed to do with information about
standby/spare hardware.

Can you elaborate?

Thanks,
Felix