references/man/facts.md
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puppet-facts - Retrieve and store facts.
puppet facts action [--terminus _TERMINUS]
This subcommand manages facts, which are collections of normalized system information used by Puppet. It can read facts directly from the local system (with the default facter terminus).
Note that any setting that's valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument, although it may or may not be relevant to the present action. For example, server and run_mode are valid settings, so you can specify --server <servername>, or --run_mode <runmode> as an argument.
See the configuration file documentation at https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/configuration.html for the full list of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all configuration options can also be generated by running puppet with --genconfig.
--render-as FORMAT
: The format in which to render output. The most common formats are json, s (string), yaml, and console, but other options such as dot are sometimes available.
--verbose
: Whether to log verbosely.
--debug
: Whether to log debug information.
--terminus _TERMINUS
: Indirector faces expose indirected subsystems of Puppet. These subsystems are each able to retrieve and alter a specific type of data (with the familiar actions of find, search, save, and destroy) from an arbitrary number of pluggable backends. In Puppet parlance, these backends are called terminuses.
Almost all indirected subsystems have a **rest** terminus that
interacts with the puppet master\'s data. Most of them have
additional terminuses for various local data models, which are in
turn used by the indirected subsystem on the puppet master whenever
it receives a remote request.
The terminus for an action is often determined by context, but
occasionally needs to be set explicitly. See the \"Notes\" section
of this face\'s manpage for more details.
find - Retrieve a node's facts.
: SYNOPSIS
puppet facts find \[\--terminus \_TERMINUS\] \[*node_certname*\]
**DESCRIPTION**
Retrieve a node\'s facts.
**RETURNS**
A hash containing some metadata and (under the \"values\" key) the
set of facts for the requested node. When used from the Ruby API: A
Puppet::Node::Facts object.
RENDERING ISSUES: Facts cannot currently be rendered as a string;
use yaml or json.
**NOTES**
When using the **facter** terminus, the host argument is ignored.
info - Print the default terminus class for this face.
: SYNOPSIS
puppet facts info \[\--terminus \_TERMINUS\]
**DESCRIPTION**
Prints the default terminus class for this subcommand. Note that
different run modes may have different default termini; when in
doubt, specify the run mode with the \'\--run_mode\' option.
save - API only: create or overwrite an object.
: SYNOPSIS
puppet facts save \[\--terminus \_TERMINUS\] *key*
**DESCRIPTION**
API only: create or overwrite an object. As the Faces framework does
not currently accept data from STDIN, save actions cannot currently
be invoked from the command line.
show - Retrieve current node's facts.
: SYNOPSIS
puppet facts \[\--terminus \_TERMINUS\] \[\--config-file *path*\]
\[\--custom-dir *path*\] \[\--external-dir *path*\] \[\--no-block\]
\[\--no-cache\] \[\--show-legacy\] \[\--value-only\] \[\--timing\]
\[*facts*\]
**DESCRIPTION**
Reads facts from the local system using **facter** terminus. A query
can be provided to retrieve just a specific fact or a set of facts.
**OPTIONS** *\--config-file \<path*\> - The location of the config
file for Facter.
*\--custom-dir \<path*\> - The path to a directory that contains
custom facts.
*\--external-dir \<path*\> - The path to a directory that contains
external facts.
*\--no-block* - Disable fact blocking mechanism.
*\--no-cache* - Disable fact caching mechanism.
*\--show-legacy* - Show legacy facts when querying all facts.
*\--timing* - Show how much time it took to resolve each fact.
*\--value-only* - Show only the value when the action is called with
a single query
**RETURNS**
The output of facter with added puppet specific facts.
**NOTES**
upload - Upload local facts to the puppet master.
: SYNOPSIS
puppet facts upload \[\--terminus \_TERMINUS\]
**DESCRIPTION**
Reads facts from the local system using the **facter** terminus,
then saves the returned facts using the rest terminus.
**RETURNS**
Nothing.
**NOTES**
This action requires that the Puppet Server\'s **auth.conf** file
allow **PUT** or **save** access to the **/puppet/v3/facts** API
endpoint.
For details on configuring Puppet Server\'s **auth.conf**, see:
*https://puppet.com/docs/puppetserver/latest/config_file_auth.html*
find
Get facts from the local system:
$ puppet facts find
show
retrieve facts:
$ puppet facts show os
upload
Upload facts:
$ puppet facts upload
This subcommand is an indirector face, which exposes find, search, save, and destroy actions for an indirected subsystem of Puppet. Valid termini for this face include:
facter
json
memory
network_device
rest
store_configs
yaml
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