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This is kind of old, but it might provide you a starting point for what you're looking for: <https://forge.puppet.com/modules/danieldreier/resource_facts/readme>

gonna do what i done for rpm and make it an array of key/values

```Facter.add(:rpm) do
  confine :osfamily =&gt; "RedHat"
  setcode do

  rpm_hash = {}

  # Grab rpm facts
  if Facter::Core::Execution.which('rpm')
    # Pull the rpm facts and parse
    rpm_output = Facter::Core::Execution.execute('rpm --query --all  --qf "%{NAME}||%{VERSION}\n"')

    # Split by line
    rpm_output.split("\n").each do |line|

      # Split by ||
      rpm_detail = line.split("||")

      # Populate hash with package name [0] and package version [1]
      rpm_hash[rpm_detail[0]] = rpm_detail[1]

    end

  # Return the fact hash
  rpm_hash

  end
  end
end```

yea, so my understanding is that will be 100s of facts for RPM not a single fact... and you'll get warnings at 2048 facts

ah okay, this comes in as a single array, thats 1 fact right?

I am not sure, I'd let one of the puppet folks confirm, but my recollection of how they described it is that all the depth gets flattened in the db to some degree

got it, i'd have hit the limit a long time ago if it were more facts. Really need to move away from gathering too much info via puppet. The node_exporter Yury mentioned looks to be more appropriate

use puppet to configure stuff that collects data, don't gather data with puppet :slightly_smiling_face:

we use nagios but this looks far superior to what they can provide. Ideally we should be using that instead

Telegraf can also provide systemd services to Splunk.

put selinux in its own profile class, make mode a class variable, set default for every node (like enforcing or permissive). now you can include this in your roles/hosts and then overwrite the class default in hiera with something like `profile::selinux::mode: disabled` .

That’s a great suggestion.  Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

Just `include selinux` and set `selinux::mode` in Hiera as suggested above

i am trying to install puppet but having some issue

Please be more precise and describe the problem. What version of Puppet? What operating system? How are you going about installing it? What is the issue?

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Anyone know what could cause `Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter command failed on Exec[/usr/bin/systemctl daemon-reload]: Command must be a String, got value of class Array (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/shared/infrastructure/firewall/manifests/linux/redhat.pp, line: 79)`

<https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall/blob/v4.1.0/manifests/linux/redhat.pp#L77-L81>

I can confirm if I comment out the command line just below it, it does work by using the title

<@U020LK7D0JU> really? The parameterized exec should work from 6.24 and above

that'd be it, the package wasn't promoted to prod :disappointed:

the puppet docker images have been deprecated for a while

Oh thanks for letting me know. Is that documented somewhere?

It was announced here on slack, don’t know where else. 

Is there any way to dump out everything that’s be compiled in the catalog ?  I’m wanting to setup a require dependency on this resource
```    tomcat::instance { $tconfig['instance']:
      catalina_home  =&gt; $tconfig['catalina_base'],
      manage_service =&gt; false,
    }```
but I’m unsure how to reference it

It would be something like
```    augeas { 'connector_port_8080':
      incl    =&gt; '/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml',
      lens    =&gt; 'Xml.lns',
      context =&gt; '/files/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml/Server/Service/Connector',
      changes =&gt; [
        'set #attribute/minSpareThreads 25',
        'set #attribute/enableLookups false',
        'set #attribute/redirectPort 8443',
        'set #attribute/connectionTimeout 20000',
        'set #attribute/disableUploadTimeout True',
        'set #attribute/URIEncoding UTF-8',
      ],
      require =&gt; Tomcat::Instance::???????,
    }```

Thanks!  Catalog compiles with that!  In general is there any way to ‘see’ everything that’s been compiled into the catalog for a particular client ?

Clients will store a copy of their compiled catalog in the `client_datadir`.
The catalog is just a JSON file, so it can be parsed with `jq`.
<https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/8/configuration.html#client-datadir|https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/8/configuration.html#client-datadir>

```sudo puppet config print client_datadir```

Use `logoutput =&gt; true`

<https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/types/exec.html#exec-attribute-logoutput|https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/types/exec.html#exec-attribute-logoutput>

A workaround I’m using is the tee command as follows:
```    exec { 'dspace_bootstrap':
      command =&gt; "/opt/bootstrap/dspace_bootstrap.sh | tee /tmp/dspace_bootstrap.log",
      onlyif  =&gt; '/bin/test ! -f /opt/bootstrap/.dspace_bootstrap.done',
      timeout =&gt; '600',
    }```

I want to post a question about running the puppet service vs runing the command "puppet agent -t".
Is this the best place to post it?