Issue #7123 has been updated by Luke Kanies.
On Apr 27, 2011, at 8:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Issue #7123 has been updated by Daniel Pittman. > So, I can’t work out what this is intended to do. It looks like it might > possible be accessible through XML-RPC or something like that, but as far as > I can tell nothing uses Puppet::Status, which this indirects: > Nothing directly uses it - its meant to be a means of determining client status, with the idea that over time we can add stats and such to it. I believe there are Nagios checks that use it, but I don't expect people use a lot of it. > I can find nothing that creates an instance grepping around. > Nothing in the spec suite uses it, at all, except the specs for > Puppet::Status themselves. > Nothing in the test suite uses it at all. > I can easily enough fix this: you can puppet status find dummy and get some > output. I can totally write a trivial wrapper around the action that does > something more human-friendly to it and all, if we want, but… > > …the output is “I am alive”, and the current time. Zero value. The REST > version is no more informative, really, since any status but “I am alive” > will be, y'know, “I can’t connect to the server”, as far as I can tell. > > I propose the best fix ever: we just delete the code entirely, and run with > it. (Specifically, delete the face code, and schedule the rest of it for > deletion in 2.8 or whatever the release after the 2.7 series is, since it > might be used in XML-RPC or something.) > Do you think the processes should have any sort of ability to provide status? ---------------------------------------- Bug #7123: 'puppet status' is non-functional https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7123 Author: Luke Kanies Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Daniel Pittman Category: Faces Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.7.0rc1 Keywords: Branch: As far as I can tell it's impossible to get anything but an exception from it. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
