Resource Type: validation

Defined in:

lib/puppet/type/validation.rb

Providers:

posix

Overview

This type allows you to validate settings on your system. Here is an example on how you can use this:

validation { "Validate root user is uid 0":
  check           => '/usr/bin/grep -e "^root" /etc/passwd',
  expected_output => /root:x:0:0:root:\/root:\/bin\/bash/,
  report_as       => 'command',
  fail_message    => "User root not defined with uid 1 valdation output is: '%<output>s'",
  fail_command    => "/bin/send_to_montoring --node ${::fqdn} %<output>s",
}

This Puppet code executes the check ‘/bin/grep…` on your system and validates that the output equals the regular expression `/root.…/`. If it passes, Puppet does nothing. Because `report_as` is set to `command`, when the check fails, Puppet will execute the `fail_command` and pass in the `fail_message` text.

Parameters

• provider

  The specific backend to use for this ‘validation` resource. You will seldom need to specify this — Puppet will usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.