BUG/Enhancement: Recipe arcgis-enterprise datasources not working with cinc client

[jesa-esrich]

The registering of datasources does not work when using the cinc-client in ArcGIS Chef Cookbooks 10.9.1.

Main cause:

• The path for the python scripts (misc_scripts) for registering datasources is hardcoded in the datasources recipe (...\cookbooks\arcgis-enterprise\attributes\datasources.rb) as 'C:\Chef\misc_scripts'
• If you follow the instructions in the wiki, the cookbooks must be extracted in c:\cinc
• This will run into an error as when running the cookbooks and registering a datasources, as the path of misc_script do not match.

Expected Behavior:

• The script automatically recognizes where the Cookbooks are extracted.
• That way the user does not have to place the misc_scripts at another location or change the code in the cookbooks
• This would also guarantee, that the user can either use the chef or cinc clients.

[cameronkroeker]

@jesa-esrich Great catch! As a workaround you can extract the cookbooks to C:\Chefwhen using cinc-client or cinc-solo.

You can pass in the path to the cookbook by using the following commands:

chef-client -z --config-option "cookbook_path=C:\chef\cookbooks" -j C:\path_to\your_json_config_file.json

or

cinc-solo --config-option "cookbook_path=C:\chef\cookbooks" -j C:\path_to\your_json_config_file.json

[cameronkroeker]

Hi @jesa-esrich,

I looked into this a bit more. You can actually still use C:\cinc as your cookbook directory and C:\cinc\misc_scripts (or any directory of your choice). To do this you will need to define the node['arcgis']['misc']['scripts_dir'] attribute within your json config file so that it overrides the default value:

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/blob/1c7f39341a4a967c6c73a20ee0b6bbb5b2a3dc53/cookbooks/arcgis-enterprise/attributes/datasources.rb#L21

For example:

{
    "arcgis": {
        "version": "10.9.1",
        "server": {

        },
    "datasources": {

        },
    "misc": {
        "scripts_dir": "C:\\cinc\\misc_scripts"
    }
    },
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[arcgis-enterprise::datasources]"
    ]
}

Thanks, Cameron K.

[jesa-esrich]

Hi @cameronkroeker

Thanks, that is good to know.

[cameronkroeker]

Updated the recipe to include node['arcgis']['misc']['scripts_dir'] attribute.

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-cookbook/wiki/arcgis%E2%80%90enterprise-Cookbook-Recipes#datasources