Hi John, I totally agree with you and i am trying to do the same cleaning previous crap!
Thanks a ton for your advice. I created a custom fact and did simple if .. else which did the job! Have a great day ahead! With Warm Regards Kaustubh.A.Chaudhari (M)-09373102619 On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, jcbollinger <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:40:48 AM UTC-6, kaustubh chaudhari wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I need to check if a service or a package is already installed before >> running the further code. >> >> Eg: >> >> Install bigfix package if bigfix service dose not exist. >> >> i know ensure => true will do this, but there is a possibility that >> bigfix was installed from the source in c:\bigfix on few server and on few >> its installed as a msi and i can see it under add remove programs. >> >> So the best way is to check if the bigfix service exists or not, if exist >> ignore if not install via puppet. >> >> Any pointers ? >> >> > > The way to inform the Puppet master about the state of the target system > before catalog compilation is via facts. You can create a custom fact that > uses whatever logic is appropriate to determine whether the software in > question is installed, and then use conditionals based on that fact in your > manifests to control whether you declare the Package or not. > > But you shouldn't. Bite the bullet: bring your servers under control so > that this sort of thing is no longer a concern. It is really bad to > install software from source on your production machines. Everything ought > to be managed via packages. > > If needs be you could adopt a hybrid approach: write a custom fact that > identifies when a piece of software of interest is installed from source, > and when that's so, tell Puppet to remove it before (re)installing it from > a package (e.g. an MSI). The package then does not need to be conditional, > which is to your advantage if you ever want to use Puppet to update it or > remove it. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/MsyNFxZ4atE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/88fd0a27-1ffa-4e7a-8a9f-9961b70cbba2%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/88fd0a27-1ffa-4e7a-8a9f-9961b70cbba2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAGceKKot9KHqbbcv7fBc6socMmDqSWzdAmOV7ZgwHgJbGp68GA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
