Facter
This package is largely meant to be a library for collecting facts about your
system. These facts are mostly strings (i.e., not numbers), and are things
like the output of uname
, public ssh and cfengine keys, the number of
processors, etc.
See bin/facter
for an example of the interface.
Running Facter
Run the facter
binary on the command for a full list of facts supported on your host.
Adding your own facts
See the Adding Facts page for details of how to add your own custom facts to Facter.
Further Information
See http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter for more details.