True or False: Resource Collectors can only search on attributes which are present in the manifests and cannot read the state of the target system.

Resource Collectors in Puppet are designed to gather information about nodes based on the defined resources in the manifests. The statement is true because Resource Collectors focus on attributes specified in the Puppet code—those it can find in the manifests. They do not have the ability to assess or read the current state of the target system outside what is provided in the manifest definitions.

Resource Collectors function by collecting data from the catalog—an internal representation of the desired state of resources as defined in Puppet. Consequently, they only work with the information available within those manifests and do not interact with the actual system to read the run-time state of resources. This limitation is what makes the assertion true.

In contrast, there are other mechanisms within Puppet that can query and assess the actual state of resources on a system, such as Facter, which collects facts about the system. However, in the context of Resource Collectors specifically, the statement holds, as their functionality is strictly related to attributes defined in the Puppet code rather than interacting with the live state of the system.