On 08/11/2010 12:27 PM, Marc Zampetti wrote:
I want puppet to normally manage the running state of a service, so
that if the service stops, it is restarted, etc. But during
maintenance windows, I want puppet to leave the service in whatever
state it is in. My idea is to have a file that can be checked to see
if the service is in maintenance mode, and if so, then skip the ensure
check.
To do this, I see two issues.
1) How do I test for the existence of a file? The docs don't seem to
be able to do so. I'm guessing I would need to define a custom fact
for that, right?
2) How do make it so that the service "ensure" property is correct?
Right now, it appears that only "running" or "notrunning" is valid.
Would "ignored" or undef or something like that work?
Is there a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Marc Zampetti
Marc, you might want to look into the schedule resource, and use that.
As for your questions:
1. You would need a custom fact.
2. There are more options for ensure for services, such as enabled,
installed, etc. I'm not sure undef would work. If you set a schedule for
it though, it shoudl only apply the resource during that schedule.
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