On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Brian Morris <nomadicextre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > > There may come a need for me to perform a wide deployment of the Puppet > client to Windows servers. I am curious to know how others have > accomplished this. > > Concerns I have: > > - No other tools are in place that readily come to mind for pushing the > client out. VCM is in play, but is difficult at best to deploy other > applications with. The client could certainly be placed on a central file > share, but pulling rather than pushing sounds like it will require direct > Sysadmin involvement. > > - To ease the pain I could set the Puppet Master to auto-sign certificates > for a small window of time, but am unsure if this would be worthwhile. > > - I can imagine a "patch party" where a bunch of Sysadmins each get a list > of servers to go hand perform the installation on, but I am hoping for > something much cleaner than this. > I'm not sure yet if we have an official/recommended way of getting the agent installed. I believe we are working on making this process easier though. So now an alternative recommendation of going about it - Is WinRm configured on these servers? I'm guessing no b/c they are stock. If so you have a much easier time moving forward, but it is not configured by default. So the next option is Wmi calls. There is a really low level Wmi call you can make to Win32_Process.Create[1] that you can use to create a process to install the puppet agent if you have administrative privileges. You can do this remotely. This works with Windows OOTB. If one could connect, you could pass a command to msiexec to run the installer with a url to the agent msi. You would want to put it on a file share that all of these servers can access (or use the official download). Take a look at automated installation[2] and msi properties[3]. So you could set your call as "msiexec" and args "/qn /i \\file\share\location\of\puppet.msi PUPPET_MASTER_SERVER=puppet.example.com" You could run that command as fire and forget and wait for them to all finish up as they check in with the master. I did a little searching and found a couple of gems out there that are related to WMI[4][5]. Note: I once worked on a tool where we did something very similar to this. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389388.aspx [2] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/install_windows.html#automated-installation [3] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/install_windows.html#msi-properties [4] https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-wmi [5] https://rubygems.org/gems/wmi-lite > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0cb53cf7-6e6e-41c3-8855-8217cfaae923%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0cb53cf7-6e6e-41c3-8855-8217cfaae923%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Rob Reynolds Developer, Puppet Labs *Join us at PuppetConf 2014 <http://www.puppetconf.com/>, September 20-24 in San Francisco* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAMJiBK7BaHkWypqZsQA2Y6f%3D1cj9FZ4E1KTfJntXw7F_9xRAWA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
