Facter about munkireport-php HOT 11 CLOSED

Yes, I have been looking at facter, and it is a very nice library. Do you think/know it will speed up gathering of data?

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I think it will. It runs very quickly, and it outputs data in an easily parse-able format. Each data point is on a separate line. It also outputs a lot more information that is currently being gathered, so it could really expand the reporting that munkireport does.

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facter does not run on 10.9 Mavericks, see https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/21868#note-11

I would rather maintain a limited set of scripts to retrieve facts.

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Ah, I haven't tested that yet. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe we can revisit the possibility once it's updated.

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It works just fine on 10.9, with the default ruby 2.0.

The bug report indicates the issue is with the packaged version of facter, but the 'gem install' version does work just fine. We could just create scripts to harvest the information, but adding more bash scripts may slow down munki runs, where using a unified tool such as facter (that runs rather quickly) would speed things up.

Facter fully supports ruby 2.0.

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I tried gem install, and I can confirm that facter runs ok on 10.9.

I' m open for more efficient ways to gather data, and facter is probably very efficient (although I'm not sure if adding custom facts won't slow down facter the same way the current setup does), but my main concern is complexity. I really want people to write their own modules, which may be included in this project, and I suspect that writing a custom fact in ruby is more than the average mac sysadmin can handle (I'm no ruby programmer as well).

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Adding custom facts looks really easy actually - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html

It is of course, up to you. I think it might be worth testing a module that collects data from facter.

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So, fork and create a feature branch that installs and uses facter!

-Arjen

On 4 nov. 2013, at 07:06, "Taylor Price" <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Adding custom facts looks really easy actually - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html

It is of course, up to you. I think it might be worth testing a module that collects data from facter.

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I'd like to test that branch :)

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I'm terrible at php, but I'll give it a shot.

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Also checkout Ohai.

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