Windows update install

prash · August 11, 2017, 3:47pm

Greetings Pro’s

There is patching schedule coming around and we need to update our windows machines , we have already configured the wsus settings manually and connected to our intranet,

all i need is a simple recipe to just check and install only the updates / i have referred community cookbooks / box starter and wsus -client which are more complex to work.

is there any powershell script that can be added to recipie would be helpful additionally

Thanks
Prash

Matt_Wrock · August 11, 2017, 9:49pm

I would have a look at https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/wsus-server for working with windows updates.

tas50 · August 11, 2017, 9:51pm

You may find this ohai plugin useful for exposing the number of outstanding updates on hosts as well.

-Tim

github.com

tas50/ohai_plugins/blob/master/windowsupdates.rb

#
# Author:: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>
# Copyright:: 2017, Chef Software, Inc <legal@chef.io>
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#

Ohai.plugin :WindowsPatches do
  provides "windowspatches"

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prash · August 12, 2017, 12:33am

Sir appreciate for the immediate response but is there any recipe that can be written like

windows_services ‘Windows Updates’ do
action :download
end

Windows_services 'windows Update ’ do
action : install
end

im an beginner to software industry what i did so far is followed the Sops provided by my organisation i am excited to learn more in automation side

Thanks
Prash

Matt_Wrock · August 12, 2017, 4:57pm

My apologies. I gave you the wrong link above. I should have given you the wsus client cookbook and not the server. See https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/wsus-client. Have a read over the readme and I think you will find examples for just what you are trying to do.

prash · August 14, 2017, 1:43pm

Greetings Sir,
Below is the error i get when im trying to run WSUS-Client cookbook

10.0.108.104 ================================================================================
10.0.108.104 Error executing action download on resource 'wsus_client_update[WSUS updates]'
10.0.108.104 ================================================================================
10.0.108.104
10.0.108.104 WIN32OLERuntimeError
10.0.108.104 --------------------
10.0.108.104 (in OLE method Search': ) 10.0.108.104 OLE error code:80072EE6 in <Unknown> 10.0.108.104 <No Description> 10.0.108.104 HRESULT error code:0x80020009 10.0.108.104 Exception occurred. 10.0.108.104 10.0.108.104 Cookbook Trace: 10.0.108.104 --------------- 10.0.108.104 c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/providers/update.rb:86:in method_missing'
10.0.108.104 c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/providers/update.rb:86:in block in updates' 10.0.108.104 c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/providers/update.rb:84:in tap'
10.0.108.104 c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/providers/update.rb:84:in updates' 10.0.108.104 c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/providers/update.rb:33:in block in class_from_file'
10.0.108.104
10.0.108.104 Resource Declaration:
10.0.108.104 ---------------------
10.0.108.104 # In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/recipes/update.rb
10.0.108.104
10.0.108.104 32: wsus_client_update 'WSUS updates' do
10.0.108.104 33: action :download
10.0.108.104 34: end
10.0.108.104 35:
10.0.108.104
10.0.108.104 Compiled Resource:
10.0.108.104 ------------------
10.0.108.104 # Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/wsus-client/recipes/update.rb:32:in from_file' 10.0.108.104 10.0.108.104 wsus_client_update("WSUS updates") do 10.0.108.104 action [:download] 10.0.108.104 retries 0 10.0.108.104 retry_delay 2 10.0.108.104 default_guard_interpreter :default 10.0.108.104 declared_type :wsus_client_update 10.0.108.104 cookbook_name "wsus-client" 10.0.108.104 recipe_name "update" 10.0.108.104 end 10.0.108.104 10.0.108.104 System Info: 10.0.108.104 ------------ 10.0.108.104 chef_version=12.21.3 10.0.108.104 platform=windows 10.0.108.104 platform_version=6.3.9600 10.0.108.104 ruby=ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x64-mingw32] 10.0.108.104 program_name=C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client 10.0.108.104 executable=C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client 10.0.108.104 10.0.108.104 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] INFO: Running queued delayed notifications before re-raising exception 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to c:/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report 10.0.108.104 [2017-08-14T09:38:53-04:00] FATAL: WIN32OLERuntimeError: wsus_client_update[WSUS updates] (wsus-client::update line 32) had an error: WIN32OLERuntimeError: (in OLE method Search': )
10.0.108.104 OLE error code:80072EE6 in
10.0.108.104
10.0.108.104 HRESULT error code:0x80020009
10.0.108.104 Exception occurred.
ERROR: Failed to execute command on 10.0.108.104 return code 1
ERROR: Bootstrap command returned 1

nbrewer · August 14, 2017, 4:15pm

Does the node have access to the internet? It looks like it’s failing to download updates.

prash · August 14, 2017, 5:21pm

yes it does have access to internet…

prash · August 14, 2017, 9:03pm

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