Thanks Jeff and Krzysztof, I think I will write a facter using netcat or something then and catch it in the manifests.
nc -z domain_name port Cheers, DGarvey On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Krzysztof Wilczynski < > krzysztof.wilczyn...@linux.com> wrote: > >> Ho David, >> >> >> On Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:05:09 UTC+1, David Garvey wrote: >>> >>> Can I check if a port is open for DSL? I need to check if the box has an >>> acl allowing the nagios server to connect via nrpe before writing nagios >>> config. >> >> [...] >> >> Managing firewall using Puppet as well, as per what Jeff suggested, is of >> course the preferred way to solve this sort of problem, but if you need to >> check whether a port is open, then have a look: >> https://github.com/kwilczynski/puppet-functions/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/is_port_open.rb >> >> Jeff will probably not approve of that :-) >> > > Eh, I may surprise you... I don't think my approval matters much at all > and I'm a fan of whatever works for the problem at hand given the tools we > have today. > > I can totally see the value of a function that automatically figures out > if a remote port is _actually_ open and listening, rather than _should_ be > open and listening, from the perspective of the Puppet master. > > With that said, I'm more interested in the problem David is facing than I > am in a specific solution solution because I'm pretty sure Puppet doesn't > have the capability to solve this in a elegant, simple and easy way. We > can solve it with a custom function or custom fact today, but I'd like to > make this easier for everyone in the future. > > -Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > -- David Garvey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
