Nicolas,
It is possible. Have a look at this recent write up I did -
http://puppetlabs.com/blog/how-avoid-common-windows-gotchas-puppet (it even
has a code example to do EXACTLY what you are asking).
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:07 AM, nicolas boquet <nicolas....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a problem with the module "facter/util/registry"...
>
> i want to read key / value from registry. On windows x86, it's OK but in
> on windows x64, i've this error:
> ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
>
>
> i 've create a fact to know the version of ocs inventory and the version
> of fusioninventory-agent:
> this line work
> Facter::Util::Registry.hklm_read('SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\OCS
> Inventory Agent', 'DisplayVersion')
> but this line doesn't work
> Facter::Util::Registry.hklm_read('SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FusionInventory-Agent',
> 'DisplayVersion')
>
>
>
> for exemple, in cmd.exe, i can do:
> C:\Windows\System32\reg.exe export
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FusionInventory-Agent"
> "C:\Uninstall.reg"
> => it's ok, i've my file uninstall.reg with my key FusionInventory-Agent
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FusionInventory-Agent]
> "DisplayName"="FusionInventory Agent 2.3.6 (x64 edition)"
> "DisplayVersion"="2.3.6"
> ........
>
> but with facter:
> Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('C:\Windows\System32\reg.exe export
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FusionInventory-Agent"
> "C:\Uninstall.reg"')
> ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
>
> In fact, i want to know if it's possible with facter to read a 64 bit
> registry from facter...
>
> Thank you and sorry for my english...
>
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