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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
