Setup Guide

Using the Puppet Facter

Dell EMC Networking OS supports the standalone tool called the Puppet Facter. This tool is based on Ruby and provides complete system

information about the agent node to the puppet master. To apply the congurations using puppet, you must install the Puppet Facter tools

on all the nodes.

Following are the facts pair in the manifest les.

osdistribution="Dell Real Time Operating System"

hostname={Chassis Hostname}

osdistribution_version={Dell OS version}

platformtype=[S4810|S4820|Z9000]

netdev_interfaces={list of interfaces}

netdev_vlans={list of vlans configured}

domain=dell.com

osfamily=NetBSD

architecture="x86"|"ppc"

puppetversion={Puppet Version}

rubyversion={Ruby Version}

uptime={System uptime}

Setting up the Puppet Master

Puppet uses the client-server model. The client-server regularly connects to the master server to synchronize their congurations and to

report the changes, if any, back to the central nodes. When you install or upgrade Puppet, you must upgrade the Puppet Master

component rst. To install and set up the Puppet Master, follow these steps:

1 Install the Ruby script.

sudo yum install ruby

2 Add the puppet repository.

sudo rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm

3 Install the puppet master.

sudo yum install puppet-server

4 Go to the Dell EMC Networking web portal at https://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/Main/SupportMain.aspx. Download the

dellnetworking-os9 puppet module and install it in the puppet master.

5 Install the rest_client ruby gem.

gem install rest-client

6 Open port 8140 in iptables.

iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp -- dport 8140 -j ACCEPT

7 Run the puppet master.

puppet master

8 Kill the process and restart the puppet master.

ps aux | grep puppet

Puppet