puppet-module-nisclient

Puppet module to manage a NIS client

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Compatability

This module has been tested to work on the following systems with Puppet v3 (with the future parser) and Puppet v4 with Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0.0 and 2.1.9. See .travis.yml for the testing matrix.

• EL 5
• EL 6
• EL 7
• Suse 11
• Suse 12
• Solaris 10
• Solaris 11
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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Parameters

domainname

NIS domain name

• Default: value of domain fact

server

NIS server hostname or IP

• Default: '127.0.0.1'

broadcast

Boolean. On Linux, enable ypbind broadcast mode. If both broadcast and server options are specified, broadcast mode will be used.

• Default: false

package_ensure

ensure attribute for NIS client package

• Default: installed

package_name

String or Array of NIS client package(s). 'USE_DEFAULTS' will use platform specific defaults provided by the module.

• Default: 'USE_DEFAULTS'

service_ensure

ensure attribute for NIS client service

• Default: running

service_name

String name of NIS client service. 'USE_DEFAULTS' will use platform specific defaults provided by the module.

• Default: 'USE_DEFAULTS'