mq authorization
Overview
This resource allows you to manage a MQ autorizations.
Here is an example on how you should use this:
mq_authorization { "group/mymqgroup->MYQM1/qmgr/self":
ensure => 'present',
authority => ['allmqi', 'dlt', 'chg', 'dsp', 'ctrl', 'system'],
}
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Attributes
Attribute Name | Short Description |
---|---|
authority | The authority given to specfied user or group on specfied object. |
disable_corrective_change | Disable the modification of a resource when Puppet decides it is a corrective change. |
disable_corrective_ensure | Disable the creation or removal of a resource when Puppet decides is a corrective change. |
ensure | The basic property that the resource should be in. |
entity | The specfied entity you want to authorize. |
entity_type | The specfied entity type. |
mq_type | The mq type. |
name | The full name of the object which security you want to manage. |
profile | The profile. |
provider | resource. |
qmgr | The queue manager. |
authority
The authority given to specfied user or group on specfied object.
You MUST specfify the indivdual authorities. The generic authorities
- all
- alladm
- allmqi
- system
Are NOT supported at this point in time.
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disable_corrective_change
Disable the modification of a resource when Puppet decides it is a corrective change.
(requires easy_type V2.11.0 or higher)
When using a Puppet Server, Puppet knows about adaptive and corrective changes. A corrective change is when Puppet notices that the resource has changed, but the catalog has not changed. This can occur for example, when a user, by accident or willingly, changed something on the system that Puppet is managing. The normal Puppet process then repairs this and puts the resource back in the state as defined in the catalog. This process is precisely what you want most of the time, but not always. This can sometimes also occur when a hardware or network error occurs. Then Puppet cannot correctly determine the current state of the system and thinks the resource is changed, while in fact, it is not. Letting Puppet recreate remove or change the resource in these cases, is NOT wat you want.
Using the disable_corrective_change
parameter, you can disable corrective changes on the current resource.
Here is an example of this:
crucial_resource {'be_carefull':
...
disable_corrective_change => true,
...
}
When a corrective ensure does happen on the resource Puppet will not modify the resource and signal an error:
Error: Corrective change present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_change
Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Crucial_resource[be_carefull]/parameter: change from '10' to '20' failed: Corrective change present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_change. (corrective)
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disable_corrective_ensure
Disable the creation or removal of a resource when Puppet decides is a corrective change.
(requires easy_type V2.11.0 or higher)
When using a Puppet Server, Puppet knows about adaptive and corrective changes. A corrective change is when Puppet notices that the resource has changed, but the catalog has not changed. This can occur for example, when a user, by accident or willingly, changed something on the system that Puppet is managing. The normal Puppet process then repairs this and puts the resource back in the state as defined in the catalog. This process is precisely what you want most of the time, but not always. This can sometimes also occur when a hardware or network error occurs. Then Puppet cannot correctly determine the current state of the system and thinks the resource is changed, while in fact, it is not. Letting Puppet recreate remove or change the resource in these cases, is NOT wat you want.
Using the disable_corrective_ensure
parameter, you can disable corrective ensure present or ensure absent actions on the current resource.
Here is an example of this:
crucial_resource {'be_carefull':
ensure => 'present',
...
disable_corrective_ensure => true,
...
}
When a corrective ensure does happen on the resource Puppet will not create or remove the resource and signal an error:
Error: Corrective ensure present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_ensure.
Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Crucial_resource[be_carefull]/ensure: change from 'absent' to 'present' failed: Corrective ensure present requested by catalog, but disabled by parameter disable_corrective_ensure. (corrective)
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ensure
The basic property that the resource should be in.
Valid values are present
, absent
.
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entity
The specfied entity you want to authorize.
This is a puppet parameter and not a managed property. Therefor it is only used during creation of the resource. Changes to this parameter in your manifest, do NOT result in modifications on the system.
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entity_type
The specfied entity type. You want to authorize.
This is a puppet parameter and not a managed property. Therefor it is only used during creation of the resource. Changes to this parameter in your manifest, do NOT result in modifications on the system.
Valid values are principal
, group
.
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mq_type
The mq type.
This is a puppet parameter and not a managed property. Therefor it is only used during creation of the resource. Changes to this parameter in your manifest, do NOT result in modifications on the system.
Valid values are authinfo
, channel
, chl
, clntconn
, clcn
, comminfo
, listener
, lstr
, namelist
, nl
, process
, prcs
, queue
, q
, qmgr
, rqmname
, rqmn
, service
, srvc
, topic
, topic
.
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name
The full name of the object which security you want to manage. The full name constists of the name of the Queue manager, a slash and then the name of the object. Here is an example:
QMGR1/MY.FIRST.CHANNEL
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profile
The profile.
This is a puppet parameter and not a managed property. Therefor it is only used during creation of the resource. Changes to this parameter in your manifest, do NOT result in modifications on the system.
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provider
The specific backend to use for this mq_authorization
resource. You will seldom need to specify this — Puppet will usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.Available providers are:
- simple
- Manage MQ Authorizations
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qmgr
The queue manager.
This is a puppet parameter and not a managed property. Therefor it is only used during creation of the resource. Changes to this parameter in your manifest, do NOT result in modifications on the system.