Functions are executed on the PuppetMaster when compiling the catalog.
I don't think you can.
You may try some workaround calling a powershell command from a custom fact
and use the fact value to manage your logic.
On Thursday, September 5, 2013 6:32:21 PM UTC+2, carllindelof wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Is there anyone who has written a custom function calling powershell that
> returns a value?
>
> The case we are trying to use the puppet module *scheduled_task *and it
> works really well!
>
> The problem is that we don't want to declare our password in the
> declaration so we would like to set username and password with a task
> performed after the task is registered.
>
> Everything works almost fine except for when we set the user and password
> , the next runtime the scheduled_task resource will change back to system
> since nothing is declared.
>
> So everything runs everytime puppet agent runs.
>
> We would like to a custom functions that checks if the scheduled_task is
> created and runing under proper user. If that is the case we dont ned to
> run *scheduled_task *resource.
>
>
> So in pseudo code something like this:
>
> $result = sheduledtaskexists("MyMagicTask")
>
> unless $result
>
>
> scheduled_task { 'MyMagicTask':
> ensure => present,
> enabled => true,
> command => 'd:\Scheduled_Tasks\MyMagicTask.bat',
> trigger => {
> schedule => daily,
> every => 1, # Defaults to 1
> start_date => '2011-08-31', # Defaults to 'today'
> start_time => '03:00', # Must be specified
> }
> }
>
>
> end
>
>
>
>
> module Puppet::Parser::Functions
> newfunction(:sheduledtaskexists, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
>
> argument =args[0].to_s() # "MyMagicTask"
>
> cmd = 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
> -NoProfile -NonInteractive -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command .
> d:\\tools\\check_task_exist.ps1; Task-Exists argument' #should be repla
>
> value = %x[ #{cmd} ].to_s().chomp
> result = value
> end
> end
>
>
>
> Powershell snippet... not proper code..
>
>
> function Task-Exists([string]$taskname)
> {
>
> [Boolean]$isFound = $false
> [xml]$tasks = schtasks /query /TN $taskname /XML
>
> if($tasks)
>
> {
> $isFound = $true
>
> }
>
> $isFound
>
> }
>
>
> Has someone done something like this?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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