Foreman facts

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Foreman and Proxy 3.7:0

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:

Rockey and 8:

Where can I find info on foreman facts? I am curious about administrater>settings>facts>
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Create new host when facts are uploaded. Foreman will create the host when new facts are received

That makes me think if facts are uploaded a new host is created. But I haven’t found much about the above.

Also how to uplaod facts?

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Here’s what I found in our documentation:

https://docs.theforeman.org/nightly/Provisioning_Hosts/index-katello.html#facts-and-nic-filtering_provisioning

hope this helps!

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Also how to uplaod facts?
Both Puopet and Ansiblr can do that.

There is also an API endpoint:

https://apidocs.theforeman.org/foreman/3.4/apidoc/v2/hosts/facts.html