[chef] Re [2]: Re [2]: In regards to push-job client update with new white-listed commands.

Thank you Mark so mach for such a deep explanations. 

I will try it today and let you know. 

It seems to me that method explained by you should help me in automation process. 

I think push-job-client.rb is indeed being updated. 

I noticed few times that after adding some new command into it, after service restart it return to initial state with chef-client whitelisted only. 

Due to the fact that node doesn't have any attributes with whitelisted commands. 

By the way, after adding attributes into node properties and restarting pushy-client I can remove push-job from node's run-list? 

Or it should reside there for appropriate pushy-client work etc?

Thank you in advance for your replies and help.

Regards,

Taras.

19 січня 2015, 23:17:41, від Mark Anderson < " target="_self"> >:

Hi Taras 

I think you are encountering multiple problems; please correct me if this doesn't match what you are seeing.

1) The windows client looks for its configuration information in #{ENV['SYSTEMDRIVE']}/chef/client.rb by default; so it will ignore the pushy-client.rb file unless the --config option is used to specify the config file to use.

(https://github.com/opscode/opscode-pushy-client/blob/master/lib/pushy_client/windows_service.rb#L35)

We made using chef.rb the default so that people could get started easily, but if you are managing your configuration with the push-jobs cookbook you'll want to point the client at push-jobs-client.rb instead. Currently the client only reads one configuration file.

From memory, the config option can be set in windows via the Service Properties 'Arguments' dialog box.

[As a side note, my inclination is that we shouldn't be building default paths off of SYSTEMDRIVE, but should be using the platform_specific_path API instead. Changing this might break people, so I'll have to dig into it a little bit before I make the change. (see https://github.com/opscode/opscode-pushy-client/issues/53 to track progress)]

2) I'm assuming you are using the push-jobs cookbook. The node attributes don't the alter push-client whitelist directly. Instead the push-jobs cookbook renders the node attributes into the push-jobs-client.rb file, which then needs to be loaded by the push client.

It sounds like the push-jobs-client.rb file isn't being updated at all. Is that right?

I'm noticing that the cookbook uses "Chef::Config.platform_specific_path('/etc/chef')" as the path to render (

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/push-jobs/blob/master/libraries/helpers.rb#L38). If you aren't seeing changes when that cookbook runs, maybe its putting the file in a different place?

Finally I'll mention that the need to restart the service to update the whitelist is an issue on my short term fixlist (https://github.com/opscode/opscode-pushy-client/issues/52 to track progress)

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:42 AM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Cerny, 

Thank you for your reply. 

Yeap. I am aware of it. 

But issue I have met is that the only source which affect white-list is client.rb file.

Not push-jobs-client.rb or node's attributes. 

I just need to add some new commands into whitelist of client.rb and restart service. That is it. 

Node's attributes can be empty. And push-jobs-client.rb can not contain that new command as well. 

Which is confusing me. 

Regards,

Taras.

19 січня 2015, 17:15:30, від "Cerny,Nathan" < " target="_blank"> >:

The push-jobs cookbook writes the pushy-client.rb configuration file when you run chef-client.  It generates the whitelist from the node attributes.

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Subject: [chef] In regards to push-job client update with new white-listed commands.

Hi Chefs,

Has someone of you worked with Chef 12 and it's push job module?

I have tested it and it seems very nice and useful facility but I can't figure out hot to manage it in bulk. 

As for adding new push-commands you have to go to client and edit client.rb file with some white-listed commands in JSON format. 

E.G.:

whitelist({"chef-client"=>"chef-client",

"ipconfig"=>"ipconfig /all > c:/ipconfigtest.txt"

})

Even though it's said in Chef's doc page that we just need to add it to node's attributes.

E.G.:

knife exec -E "nodes.transform(name:'*node_name*') {|n| n.set['push_jobs']['whitelist']['ipconfig2'] = 'ipconfig /all > c:/ipconfigtest2.txt'; end}"

But in fact we should add it to client.rb, pushy-client.rb and restart pushy-client service on windows box. 

Yeap. I am w orking with windows platform. 

And even if I don't add these attributes to node's attributes but add to client.rb and pushy-client.rb everything works with no issues at all...

So I am a bit confused why we need these white-list commands to be added to nodes attributes at all.

Thank you in advance for your replies and advises. 

Regards,

Taras.

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