some new explorers wich are handy if you must tune for example sap or

oracle to the systemtype, cpu cores and/or physical memory

cdist/conf/explorer/cpu_cores

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2014 Daniel Heule  (hda at sfs.biz)
+# 2014 Thomas Oettli (otho at sfs.biz)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+
+# FIXME: other system types (not linux ...)
+
+if [ -r /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
+    cores="$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "core id" | sort | uniq | wc -l)"
+    if [ ${cores} -eq 0 ]; then
+        cores="1"
+    fi
+    echo "${cores}"
+fi

cdist/conf/explorer/cpu_sockets

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2014 Daniel Heule  (hda at sfs.biz)
+# 2014 Thomas Oettli (otho at sfs.biz)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+
+# FIXME: other system types (not linux ...)
+
+if [ -r /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
+    sockets="$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "physical id" | sort | uniq | wc -l)"
+    if [ ${sockets} -eq 0 ]; then
+        sockets="$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "processor" | wc -l)"
+    fi
+    echo "${sockets}"
+fi

cdist/conf/explorer/machine_type

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2014 Daniel Heule  (hda at sfs.biz)
+# 2014 Thomas Oettli (otho at sfs.biz)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+
+# FIXME: other system types (not linux ...)
+
+if [ -r /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
+    # this should only exist on virtual guest machines,
+    # tested on vmware, xen, kvm
+    if grep -q "hypervisor" /proc/cpuinfo; then
+        # this file is aviable in xen guest systems
+        if [ -r /sys/hypervisor/type ]; then
+            if grep -q -i "xen" /sys/hypervisor/type; then
+                echo virtual by xen
+                exit 
+            fi
+        else
+            if [ -r /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name ]; then
+                if grep -q -i 'vmware' /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name; then
+                    echo "virtual by vmware"
+                    exit
+                else 
+                    if grep -q -i 'bochs' /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name; then
+                        echo "virtual by kvm"
+                        exit 
+                    fi
+                fi
+            fi
+        fi
+        echo "virtual by unknown"
+    else
+        echo "physical"
+    fi
+else
+    echo "unknown"
+fi

cdist/conf/explorer/memory

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2014 Daniel Heule  (hda at sfs.biz)
+# 2014 Thomas Oettli (otho at sfs.biz)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+
+# FIXME: other system types (not linux ...)
+
+if [ -r /proc/meminfo ]; then
+    echo "$(cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemTotal:" | awk '{print $2}')"
+fi