How to install/upgrade the rbeapi.rpm via puppet?

[mmailand]

Hi, I played around with the idea to update the rbeapi.rpm via puppet. I cannot use the rbeapi it self, because than I am limited to updates and cannot to an initial install. Therefore I tired to warp it into FastCli -c ‚foo bar‘ commands, which I put into a shell script. If I execute the script it works fine, but if the puppet agent executes it is not able to connect through the FastCli call.

Therefore I used strace to see what is happening.

Puppet run

execve("/usr/bin/FastCli", ["/usr/bin/FastCli", "-p", "15", "-c", "show extension"], [/* 15 vars /]) = 0 .. execve("/usr/bin/fastclient", ["fastclient", "-r", "FastCli", "-t", "CliPoolMgr/ar", "-p", "15", "-c", "show extension"], [/ 16 vars */]) = 0 .. connect(6, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/fastclient/CliPoolMgr/ar"}, 28) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) ..

If I run it as the root user it works.

execve("/usr/bin/FastCli", ["/usr/bin/FastCli", "-p", "15", "-c", "show extension"], [/* 22 vars /]) = 0 .. execve("/usr/bin/fastclient", ["fastclient", "-r", "FastCli", "-t", "CliPoolMgr/ar", "-p", "15", "-c", "show extension"], [/ 23 vars */]) = 0 .. connect(6, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/fastclient/CliPoolMgr/ar"}, 28) = 0

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

Puppet:

exec { 'update_extension': subscribe => File['/usr/local/sbin/update_extension.sh'], refreshonly => true, user => 'root', group => 'root', logoutput => true, command => '/usr/local/sbin/update_extension.sh', }

script:

!/bin/bash -x

/usr/bin/strace /usr/bin/FastCli -p 15 -c 'show extension'

[jerearista]

There are a couple of options. The most direct answer is that tool is expecting a TTY. One solution is to use tty -s. Example:

  $script = @(END)
  #!/bin/bash -x
  /usr/bin/FastCli -p 15 -c 'show extension'
  END

  file { '/usr/local/sbin/update_extension.sh':
    content => $script,
    owner   => root,
    group   => root,
    mode    => '0755',
  }

  exec { 'update_extension':
    subscribe   => File['/usr/local/sbin/update_extension.sh'],
    refreshonly => true,
    user        => 'root',
    group       => 'root',
    logoutput   => true,
    command     => '/usr/bin/tty -s && /usr/local/sbin/update_extension.sh',
  }

Another solution is to utilize raw jsonrpc eAPI calls through Python or some other tool which could give you structured data:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from jsonrpclib import Server
from pprint import pprint
eos = Server("unix:/var/run/command-api.sock")
extensions = eos.runCmds(1, ['show extensions'])
pprint(extensions)

[{'extensions': {'puppet-agent-1.4.2-1.eos4.i386.swix': {'error': False,
                                                         'numRpms': 1,
                                                         'presence': 'present',
                                                         'release': '1.eos4',
                                                         'status': 'notInstalled',
                                                         'version': '1.4.2'},
                 'puppet-agent-1.5.2-1.eos4.i386.swix': {'error': False,
                                                         'numRpms': 1,
                                                         'presence': 'present',
                                                         'release': '1.eos4',
                                                         'status': 'installed',
                                                         'version': '1.5.2'},
                 'rbeapi-puppet-aio-0.5.1-1.swix': {'error': False,
                                                    'numRpms': 4,
                                                    'presence': 'present',
                                                    'release': '1.eos4',
                                                    'status': 'installed',
                                                    'version': '0.5.1'}}}]

_NOTE:_ Currently, you must use the EOS copy command to get extensions into the extension: filesystem and visible within EOS. Puppet could ensure the file exists in Flash: (/mnt/flash), then use eAPI or FastCli to send copy flash:<extension> extension:.