We are in the process of building the configuration for our monitoring system from exported resources (more on that in the future). To accomplish one of the checks we needed a way to identify the brand of RAID controller in our physical servers. The best way to do this is facter. We’ve written some custom […]

By default facter returns the free and total memory and swap of a machine only in GB or MB. To remedy this we rewrote the memory.rb bundled with Puppet to return the numbers in bytes.

More Puppet Tips&Tricks in our new blog post: This time on Variable variables.

Another blog post in our Puppet Tips&Tricks series: Creating a fact which contains the installed version of a package.