I have to manage a few RHEL3 servers (i386), and since I’m using Puppet in my environment, it would be great to use it in those servers also. However, Puppet requires ruby >= 1.8.1, and RHEL3 ships ruby 1.6.8. Instead of compiling ruby on the server (quick and dirty), I rebuilt the RPM based on [...]
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Facter + Puppet: Writing custom facts to manage Plesk servers
What I’ll describe here is the process of writing some custom facts to retrieve useful information from Parallels Plesk servers, so that you can use them in your Puppet recipes. For those of you who don’t know what Facter is, I’ll quote the manufacturer’s description: Reductive’s analysis tool for reporting system configuration and status, used [...]