facter - Gather system information
Collect and display facts about the system.
FACTER(8) FACTER(8) NAME facter - Gather system information SYNOPSIS Collect and display facts about the system. USAGE facter [-h|--help] [-t|--timing] [-d|--debug] [-p|--puppet] [-v|--version] [-y|--yaml] [-j|--json] [--plaintext] [--external-dir DIR] [--no-external-dir] [fact] [fact] [...] DESCRIPTION Collect and display facts about the current system. The library behind Facter is easy to expand, making Facter an easy way to collect informa- tion about a system from within the shell or within Ruby. If no facts are specifically asked for, then all facts will be returned. EXAMPLE Display all facts: $ facter architecture => amd64 blockdevices => sda,sr0 domain => example.com fqdn => puppet.example.com hardwaremodel => x86_64 [...] Display a single fact: $ facter kernel Linux Format facts as JSON: $ facter --json architecture kernel hardwaremodel { "architecture": "amd64", "kernel": "Linux", "hardwaremodel": "x86_64" } AUTHOR Luke Kanies COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Puppet Labs, Inc Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license OPTIONS -y, --yaml Emit facts in YAML format. -j, --json Emit facts in JSON format. --plaintext Emit facts in plaintext format. --trace Enable backtraces. --external-dir DIR The directory to use for external facts. --no-external-dir Turn off external facts. -d, --debug Enable debugging. -t, --timing Enable timing. -p, --puppet Load the Puppet libraries, thus allowing Facter to load Puppet-specific facts. -v, --version Print the version and exit. -h, --help Print this help message. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Availability | system/management/facter | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------------+ NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://rubygems.org/gems/facter-4.0.43.gem. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://puppetlabs.com/facter. February 2014 FACTER(8)