March 2017
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Facter is a separate utility upon which Puppet depends. It is the system used by Puppet to gather information about the target system (node); facter calls the nuggets of information facts. You may run facter from the command line to obtain real-time information from the system.
facter to find the current uptime of the system, the uptime fact:t@cookbook ~$ facter uptime 0:12 hours
t@cookbook ~$ uptime 01:18:52 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
When facter is installed (as a dependency for puppet), several fact definitions are installed by default. You can reference each of these facts by name from the command line. ...
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