On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Josh Cooper <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Thomas Bendler
> <thomas.bend...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi @all,
>>
>> does anyone manage the NSClient++ deployment with puppet? I have the strange
>> behavior that I can distribute the installation package to the target server
>> and install the package with the MSI provider. The relevant code is here:
>>
>> if $windows {
>> file {
>> "c:/local/source":
>> ensure => directory, mode => 0770,
>> owner => "Administrators", group => "Administrators";
>>
>> "c:/local/source/NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi":
>> ensure => present, mode => 0660,
>> owner => "Administrators", group => "Administrators",
>> require => File["c:/local/source"],
>> path => $::operatingsystem ? { default =>
>> "c:/local/source/NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi" },
>> source => "puppet:///modules/monitor/nagios/NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi";
>
> This require shouldn't be necessary as the file will autorequire its
> ancestor directories.
>
>>
>> "c:/local/nsclient/boot.ini":
>> ensure => present, mode => 0664,
>> owner => "Administrators", group => "SYSTEM",
>> require => Package["NSClientpp"],
>> notify => Service["NSClientpp"],
>> path => $::operatingsystem ? { default => "c:/local/nsclient/boot.ini"
>> },
>> content => template("monitor/nagios/client/boot.ini.erb");
>>
>> "c:/local/nsclient/nsc.ini":
>> ensure => present, mode => 0664,
>> owner => "Administrators", group => "SYSTEM",
>> require => Package["NSClientpp"],
>> notify => Service["NSClientpp"],
>> path => $::operatingsystem ? { default => "c:/local/nsclient/nsc.ini"
>> },
>> content => template("monitor/nagios/client/nsc.ini.erb");
>> }
>>
>> package {
>> "NSClientpp":
>> ensure => installed,
>> provider => "msi",
>> source => 'c:\local\source\NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi',
>> install_options => {
>> 'INSTALLLOCATION' => 'c:\local\nsclient',
>> 'ADDLOCAL' => 'ALL',
>> 'START_SERVICE_ON_EXIT' => '1'
>> };
>> }
>>
>> service {
>> "NSClientpp":
>> name => $::operatingsystem ? { default => "NSClientpp" },
>> ensure => "running", enable => true,
>> require => Package["NSClientpp"];
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Now to the strange thing, when the package is installed with the MSI
>> provider, the service entry from the NSClient++ disapear. When I manually
>> execute the installation package with option repair, it apears again ...
>> until the next puppet run where it disapear again. So calling the service
>> resource fail because of the missing service entry. The OS is a 2003SP2 x64,
>> the puppet client has the version 2.7.19. Any ideas?
>
> The name of the package needs to match the "DisplayName" as specified
> in the registry (and Add/Remove Programs). This used to be in the
> puppet wiki page, but I don't see it in the new documentation. I'll
> file a doc bug about this.
I submitted a pull request https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-docs/pull/107
> For this package, it should be "NSClient++ (x64)", both in the package
> resource and the service resource that requires it.
>
> It appears what is occurring is that the second time puppet runs, it
> thinks the package is not installed, so it installs it again (really a
> repair). For some reason, the NSClient MSI gets confused and
> uninstalls the service during the repair.
>
> In any case, the second time you run puppet (with --debug), you should
> see something like:
>
> Debug: /Stage[main]//File[c:/local/nagios/NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi]/require:
> requires File[c:/local/nagios]
> Debug: /Stage[main]//Service[NSClientpp]/require: requires
> Package[NSClient++ (x64)]
> ...
> Debug: Prefetching msi resources for package
> Debug: Service[NSClientpp](provider=windows): Service NSClientpp is running
> Debug: Service[NSClientpp](provider=windows): Service NSClientpp start
> type is auto start
>
> But you should not see:
>
> Debug: Executing 'msiexec.exe /qn /norestart /i
> c:\local\nagios\NSClient++-0.3.9-x64.msi ADDLOCAL=ALL
> INSTALLLOCATION=c:\local\nsclient START_SERVICE_ON_EXIT=1'
>
> Josh
>
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> Josh Cooper
> Developer, Puppet Labs
Josh
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