John

Cheers for the response...

Unfortunately SnapDrive is not my program - It's a NetApp program, so I'm
not going to be able to change it :(
Also doesn't look like it's designed to support command line args... :( :(

But in principle, it looks like it's possible, but a bit hacky...

Cheers
Gavin


On 7 February 2013 14:42, jcbollinger <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday, February 7, 2013 5:12:41 AM UTC-6, Gavin Williams wrote:
>>
>> Morning all
>>
>> I'm looking at writing a set of types/providers to handle NetApp
>> SnapDrive configuration and usage...
>>
>> There's quite a lot to SnapDrive, so initially, I'm just trying to get it
>> to manage credentials.
>>
>> The challenge I can immediately see is that for me to set a credential,
>> the command prompts for a password input twice... Example command run is:
>> # snapdrive config set sd-act-star-db05 act-star-nactl01
>> Password for sd-act-star-db05:
>> Retype password:
>> 0000-957 Warning: Optionally, Please set -mgmtpath interface for
>> act-star-nactl01 to be used as data interface i.e
>> snapdrive config set -mgmtpath <mgmtpath> act-star-nactl01
>>
>> Is it possible to cater for this in a provider?
>>
>>
>
> In principle, you can redirect appropriate canned responses into the
> command's standard input. I don't recall offhand whether Puppet's built-in
> executor facilities support that directly, but you can always wrap up
> something like that in a 'bash -c' command.
>
> It would be far better, however, if the configuration program were built
> to be scriptable (i.e. to not require interactive I/O).  For one thing,
> does your installer prompt for a password even when it is run by root
> (which is what the agent will do in the usual configuration)?  Does it
> support command-line options by which you can bypass any other Q&A?
>
>
> John
>
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