Administrator Guide

}

Using the Puppet Facter

Dell Networking OS supports the standalone tool called the Puppet Facter . This tool is based on Ruby

and provides the complete system information about the agent node to the puppet master. To apply the

configurations using puppet, the Puppet Facter tools needs to be installed on all the nodes.

Following are the Facts pair in the manifest files.

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 configurations and reports the changes if any, back to the central nodes. When you

install or upgrade Puppet, the Puppet Master component needs to be upgraded first. To install and setup

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. Install the rest_client ruby gem.

gem install rest-client

5. Open the port 8140 in iptables.

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

6. Run the puppet master.

puppet master

7. Kill the process and restart the puppet master.

ps aux | grep puppet

Puppet