Ohad Levy wrote:

is there an equiv way in salt? or would you expect we work with facter/ohai etc instead?

Sure, in Salt those information are called grains. I would have started to do more SaltStack<->Foreman integration mysqlf, but due to a lack of time I added a parameter lookup interface only: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/pillar/foreman.py

See also http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/CMS-Report#Salt-Stack

@$ salt_call -g --local --out=json {
"local": {
"kernel": "Darwin",
"domain": "fritz.box",
"zmqversion": "3.2.4",
"kernelrelease": "13.2.0",
"pythonpath": [
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload",
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages",
"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages"
],
"saltversioninfo": [
2014,
1,
1
],
"ip_interfaces": {
"gif0": [],
"bridge0": [],
"en0": [],
"en1": [
"192.168.2.90"
],
"lo0": [
"127.0.0.1"
],
"en5": [],
"p2p0": [],
"stf0": [],
"fw0": []
},
"shell": "/bin/bash",
"mem_total": 16384,
"gpus": [ {
"model": "HD Graphics 4000",
"vendor": "intel"
}
],
"id": "hostname",
"osrelease": "10.9.3",
"ps": "ps auxwww",
"server_id": 2134903248,
"num_cpus": 4,
"hwaddr_interfaces": {
"bridge0": "12:dd:b1:e9:90:00",
"en0": "10:dd:b1:9e:cb:2c",
"en1": "4c:8d:79:dd:43:ee",
"en5": "d2:00:16:1c:ee:e0",
"p2p0": "0e:8d:79:dd:43:ee",
"fw0": "10:dd:b1:ff:fe:61:ce:ee"
},
"virtual": "physical",
"master": "salt",
"ipv4": [
"127.0.0.1",
"192.168.2.90"
],
"ipv6": [
"::1",
"fe80::1",
"fe80::4e8d:79ff:fedd:43ee"
],
"cpu_flags": [
"FPU",
"VME",
"DE",
"PSE",
"TSC",
"MSR",
"PAE",
"MCE",
"CX8",
"APIC",
"SEP",
"MTRR",
"PGE",
"MCA",
"CMOV",
"PAT",
"PSE36",
"CLFSH",
"DS",
"ACPI",
"MMX",
"FXSR",
"SSE",
"SSE2",
"SS",
"HTT",
"TM",
"PBE",
"SSE3",
"PCLMULQDQ",
"DTES64",
"MON",
"DSCPL",
"VMX",
"EST",
"TM2",
"SSSE3",
"CX16",
"TPR",
"PDCM",
"SSE4.1",
"SSE4.2",
"x2APIC",
"POPCNT",
"AES",
"PCID",
"XSAVE",
"OSXSAVE",
"TSCTMR",
"AVX1.0",
"RDRAND",
"F16C"
],
"localhost": "lap-abechtoldt01.fritz.box",
"fqdn_ip4": [
"192.168.2.90"
],
"fqdn_ip6": [],
"nodename": "fqdn",
"saltversion": "2014.1.1",
"saltpath": "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt",
"pythonversion": [
2,
7,
6,
"final",
0
],
"host": "hostname",
"os_family": "MacOS",
"defaultencoding": "UTF-8",
"path": "/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/opt/local/bin/",
"num_gpus": 1,
"external_ip": "37.209.109.105",
"cpu_model": "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU 2.50GHz",
"fqdn": "hostname",
"osarch": "x86_64",
"cpuarch": "x86_64",
"os": "MacOS",
"defaultlanguage": "en_US"
}
}