Hi, I am new to Puppet.
After having read quite a bit through the online puppet docs, as well as wiki posts and James' "Pulling Strings with Puppet" I installed a puppet master on an RHEL 5 box and one puppetd on an HP-UX box (which was a bit of a challenge owe to the notorious Ruby agnosticism of that platform) and one on another RHEL 5 box. I verified that the basic functionality was given, after signing of the nodes' SSL certificates, through a few tests with most trivial, e.g. file resource, definitions in the master's site.pp. Then I wanted to create something more useful and tinkered up a first class definition to aid me in deploying nagios/nrpe clients on the Redhattish (i.e. RPM based) nodes. Here I stumbled over a few issues of which one is, if there exists a posibility to pass (additional) options to the rpm command on the affected puppet nodes which I guess will be executed (by some system call or forked pipe?) on behalf of puppet's RPM provider for redhattish systems? In the resources' online doc for "package" however, I couldn't find any attribute that sounded fitting for this purpose. In particular, I want to pass a "--nodeps" option to the rpm command because the prebuilt rpm binaries that I intend to have installed through Puppet exhibit partly pretty odd dependencies. E.g. # rpm -qR nagios-plugins-nrpe|grep nagios nagios nagios-plugins or # rpm -qR nagios-plugins|grep -i snmp perl(Net::SNMP) As for the first, I do not wish to have the Nagios server (which is packaged in "nagios") installed on every nrpe node, and for the Nagios Plug-ins, nor do I want to have the perl-Net-SNMP rpm installed (which itself most likely will depend on a net-snmp rpm) on every nrpe node either because I do not employ any SNMP-based Nagios plug-ins. Since Puppet is open source of course there will be some way, at a pinch presumably by overriding the rpm provider. But for now I am looking for a less hackish approach as I am new to either Ruby and Puppet. Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
