Justin

Cheers for that. Will have a read and see what I can come up with :)

Cheers
Gav


On 7 February 2013 17:32, Justin Stoller <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's a completely undocumented (outside of the Pickaxe book) Ruby
> STDLIB module called 'expect' that you could use in 1.8.7, open up irb and
> give it a whirl. You can find other expect like gems (or at least crib how
> they're using the pty)[1]. I think you'll want something like expect4r[2]
> extended for NetApp.
>
>
> HTH,
> Justin
>
> 1. https://rubygems.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=expect
> 2. https://github.com/jesnault/expect4r
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, fatmcgav <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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