On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Brian Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been banging my head against this one for a couple of days. I am
> trying to use Powershell to comb the Windows registry for installed
> applications, such as VMware Tools, to create a custom facter. If I run
> this code from a PS prompt it works, and returns the expected data:
>
> PS C:\> Get-ChildItem
> hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | ForEach-Object
> {Get-ItemProperty $_.ps
> path} | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq "VMware Tools"} | ForEach-Object
> -process {$_.DisplayVersion }
> *9.4.6.1770165*
>
>
This is running in a 64bit process.
> However, running the same thing through Puppet as a facter yields zero
> data:
>
> ----------
> Facter.add("vmtools_version") do
> confine :osfamily => "Windows"
> setcode do
>
> Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
> -Command "& {Get-ChildItem
> hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | ForEach-Object
> {Get-ItemProperty $_.pspath} | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq \"VMware
> Tools\"} | ForEach-Object -process {$_.DisplayVersion } } "')
> end
> end
> ----------
>
This is in a 32bit process unless you are on the newest 3.7.0 or 3.7.1 x64
builds of Puppet. You are hitting registry redirection. Be sure to
checkout Common Gotchas[1] especially for how to turn off registry
redirection in a 32 bit process.
[1] http://puppetlabs.com/blog/how-avoid-common-windows-gotchas-puppet
More detail:
When a 32 bit process calls the registry and is subject to redirection, it
only sees the Wow6432Node under software. Check out that link above, it
explains quite a bit in more detail.
>
> The left side shows up in the facters as "vmtools_version", but the right
> side is always empty. I have tried using the GetItem module instead, and
> tried various combinations of the "-Command" switch, removed the "For-Each"
> handler to see if would spit out a huge block of text, and even tried
> wrapping the whole thing in a "try & catch" to see if any error states are
> generated, but have never gotten any right side output at all.
>
> Does anyone have an idea that might make this work?
>
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