Your response is confusing, Rob.
The process I have been using lately is to uninstall the VMWare-provided tools
completely, then install OVT.
It shows up in vSphere
Dan White | d_e_wh...@icloud.com
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On Aug 11, 2016, at 08:03 AM, Rob Nelson <rnels...@gmail.com> wrote:
This. open-vm-tools upgrades seamlessly if you upgrade your kernel, the official tools do not. They are only recommended when open-vm-tools is not available.https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803 under VMware Support Policy. I mention this because the official tools will be present, but not synced with the new kernel version, so won't be considered Running by vSphere, even though the processes themselves are running in the Guest OS, which is impossible to ascertain from inside the Guest OS. That's best discovered through any one of the vSphere APIs (like PowerCLI) and then use other tools/actions to remediate your findings, like VUM.
Rob Nelson
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Dan White <d_e_wh...@icloud.com> wrote:
Did you know that VMWare encourages the use of the open-vm-tools ?
You might want to reconsider.
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On Aug 11, 2016, at 01:21 AM, Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote:
HI
Yes went to puppet forge first, but .. the vmtools module use the
opensource vmtools package, which I could use, but we have decided to
stick with the office install from vmware. and I don't see one of
those anywhere.
Thanks
Alex
On 11 August 2016 at 14:12, Nick Cammorato <nick.cammor...@gmail.com> wrote:
So setting aside if this is a good idea or not, you can do this in a
single exec resource. Look at
https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/types/exec.html
Pay particular attention to onlyif, refreshonly, unless, and creates.
Used either alone or in concert with the file resource type
(https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.6/reference/types/file.html#file-attribute-source),
you can set up something roughly like:
file { 'somepath/vmtools.tar.gz': source =>
'http://somesite/vmtools.tar.gz', notify => exec['vmtoolsinst'] } ->
exec { 'vmtoolsinst': command => 'stuffs', refreshonly => true }
which will download the file then run a command on it if it had to
download the file. You could also chain execs ala:
exec { 'curl -o somepath http://somesite/vmtoolsd': onlyif =>
'shell eval of vmware-toolbox-cmd -v output', notify => vmtoolsinst }
exec { 'vmtoolsinst': command => 'stuffs', refreshonly => true }
Now going beyond that, you could add in a custom fact to capture the
value of vmware-toolbox-cmd. This would look something like:
Facter.add('vmtools-toolbox-cmd') do
setcode do
Facter::Core::Execution.exec(' vmware-toolbox-cmd -v')
end
end
You would then be able to do logic based off this fact.
Really though, you should just use the forge - there's a puppet
approved module for vmtools:
https://forge.puppet.com/razorsedge/vmwaretools
HTH,
--Nick
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote:
Hi
so I have a repo of vmware-tools.*.tgz files located at a website.
how do I build a module to check
1) is vmware tool install - check does vmware-toolbox-cmd exist
2) is it the right version - check for current version is vmware-toolbox-cmd
-v
I want to add version number into my hiera DB. think i have worked out. but
not sure how to do the client test.
I am guessing (psydo code)
if exist vmware-toolbox-cmd and if vmware-toolbox-cmd -v >= <version
wanted>
then
do nothing
else
wget file
run vmware-install
fi
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