sillyfacter 0.3.2.2

Requirements

Desgined in Python 2.7, for *nix systems. Tested on Mac, RHEL, Solaris. The Python package dependencies are:

• netaddr

• netifaces

• psutil

• pymongo

• pip >= v1.5.1

But these are taken care by pip during installation

Using pip

# Needs pip v1.5
# So just upgrade it anyways...
pip install --ugrade pip


pip install --upgrade --allow-all-external --allow-unverified netifaces sillyfacter
# --upgrade ensures latest versions
# --allow-all-external and --allow-unverified is needed for netifaces :-(

From source:

On Debian: Ensure following things are installed:

• apt-get install python-dev build-essential

• apt-get install libbz2-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline6-dev ncurses-dev

Download installer bash script and run it

• wget https://raw.github.com/hihellobolke/sillyfacter/master/installer.bash

• bash installer.bash

Simple JSON output

$ sillyfacter
{
    "_scan_id": "gautsing-mac",
    "_scan_time": "1390293214",
    "arch": "x86_64",
    "boottime": "1390206976",
    "cpu": 8,
    "cpu_used": 10.2,
    "domainname": "",
    "fqdn": "gautsing-mac",
    "hardwareisa": "i386",
    "hardwaremodel": "i386",
    "has": {
        "filesystem": [
            {
                "dev": "/dev/disk0s2",

Storing facts directly in MongoDB

Stores JSON facts directly in to mongodb (uses pymongo). The document *_id* defaults to hostname fact, collection defaults to “sillyfacter”. Documents are overwritten. Timestamps are converted to Datetime so their types are preserved :-)

$ sillyfacter --out mongodb://localhost/factdb
{
    "_info": {
        "_id": "gautsing-mac",
        "collection": "sillyfacter",
        "db": "factdb",
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 27017
    },
    "status": "Save success",
    "url": "mongodb://localhost/factdb"
}

Help?

And yes there some –help too.

$ python sillyfacter --help
usage: sillyfacter [-h] [--modules MODULES] [--out OUT] [--log LOG]
                        [--verbose] [--strict] [--debug]
                        [--scan {auto,new,last}] [--raw] [--version]

Sillyfacter fetches facts about the state of the system. Gathers process, open
file, socket info and then outputs a JSON (currently). Designed for dependency
mappings.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --modules MODULES     comma seperated list of modules to be executed.
                        Default list is "all" which is expanded to include
                        "process,network,user,os,filesystem"
  --out OUT             URL for the backend Mongo database (E.g.
                        mongodb://localhost:27017/). If nothing is supplied it
                        dumps JSON to stdout
  --log LOG             file to write logs to, otherwise logs are written to
                        console
  --verbose, -v         Use multiple "-v" options
  --strict              If selected will error out on every exeption Note:
                        Useful when debugging only [False]
  --debug               If selected will emit very debugging logs if exception
                        are encountered. Note: Useful when debugging only
                        [False]
  --scan {auto,new,last}
                        [NOT IMPLEMENTED] choose the scan type, usually "auto"
                        is the best. [auto]
  --raw                 [NOT IMPLEMENTED] Use raw output, default is false
  --version             show program's version number and exit