Nice one, I'll give that a go. You don't happen to know how I can set a
variable to equal the result of a powershell command do you? I need to use
the hostname of the machine as a parameter for another command. At the
minute I'm using hard-coding which is obviously a cardinal sin.
On Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:27:04 UTC+1, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
>
> We solve this issue by doing (kind of ugly) stuff like this in our modules:
>
> unless => 'if ( ! ( Get-Service mcollectived ) ) { exit 1 }',
>
> If you don't like that syntax, you may be able to use the $? or
> $LastExitCode variables that get set by PowerShell (I haven't tested this,
> however). Both of those have non-obvious gotchas. A good writeup on error
> handling in PS (not Puppet-specific) is here:
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/05/12/powershell-error-handling-and-why-you-should-care.aspx
>
> - Peter
>
>
> On 08/27/2015 08:38 AM, Thomas Bartlett wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> So I've been working with puppet on windows and I think my approach is all
> wrong. I've been using the puppetlabs/powershell module to run commands,
> however I'm having difficulty with exit codes. Primarily puppet expects
> exit codes to denote success/failure, whereas powershell is returning
> objects (and giving a 0 exit code regardless of result).
>
> I'm automating the install of old bits of software, so getting meaningful
> answers out of the installers is pretty difficult, this means that the
> scripts are a bit ugly and not very idempotent. Typically I have to check a
> log file to find out if the install actually worked.
>
> Are there any examples out there of windows puppet automation that makes
> heavy use of the powershell module?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
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