A Facter plugin that loads external facts.
Default Unix Directories: /etc/facter/facts.d", "/etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d"
Default Windows Direcotires: C:ProgramDataPuppetlabsfacterfacts.d (2008) C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataPuppetlabsfacterfacts.d (2003)
Can also load from command-line specified directory
Facts can be in the form of JSON, YAML or Text files and any executable that returns key=value pairs.