I no longer use Puppet actively and this software has not been maintained for some time.

Puppet module for creating menus and menu items using the Curses Command Front-end (CCFE) menu system - http://cfe.altervista.org/en/

Currently only tested on Redhat-like systems.

The recommended usage is to place the configuration in a hiera config file and just include the ccfe module in your puppet configuration:

include ccfe

Example hiera config:

ccfe::filestore:    'puppet:///files/ccfe',
ccfe::package_file: 'ccfe-1.57-1.noarch.rpm'
ccfe::menu_wrapper: 'true'

ccfe::menus:
  menu:
    description: 'Main Menu'
    items:
      user_services:
        description: 'User Services'
        action: 'menu:services'
      system_services:
        description:  'System Services'
        action: 'run:/sbin/service --status-all'
  services:
    description: 'Logscape'
    group: 'logscape'

ccfe::items:
  01_logscape_taillogfile:
    parent: 'services'
    description: 'logscape service: tail log file'
    action: 'run:/usr/bin/sudo -Hi -u logscape /usr/bin/tail -n 100 -f ~logscape/logs/logscape/current'
  02_logscape_status:
    parent: 'services'
    description: 'logscape service: status'
    action: 'run:/usr/bin/sudo -Hi -u logscape /sbin/sv -w60 stat logscape'
  03_logscape_restart:
    parent: 'services'
    description: 'logscape service: restart'
    action: 'run(confirm):/usr/bin/sudo -Hi -u logscape /sbin/sv -w60 restart logscape'

This example does the following:

• Creates a /usr/bin/menu wrapper script that calls /usr/bin/ccfe menu to display the menu called menu

• Creates a menu called menu with a User Services entry and a System Services entry

• Selecting the System Services entry executes /sbin/service to show the status of system services

• Selecting the User Services entry calls another menu called services

• For members of the logscape group (and the owner root) the services menu has three items and selecting each of these runs a command. Non-members will not be able to access this menu.

• Selecting the restart menu item pops up a confirmation dialog before the command is executed.

If the contents of the menu is known beforehand then it can be constructed completely using the ccfe::menus configuration in hiera or calling the ccfe::menus parameterised class with an appropriate config parameter hash.

To dynamically add menu items the ccfe::items configuration in hiera or ccfe::items parameterised class can be used. The menus themselves must already have been created using ccfe::menus though.

If menu_wrapper is set to true, which it is by default, then your top-level menu should be called menu and will be displayed when the /usr/bin/menu command is executed.

If the group parameter is passed when creating a menu then only members of that group (and the owner - usually root) will be able to access the menu.

basedir: The base directory under which menus are created. Default: /usr/lib/ccfe/ccfe

filestore: The Puppet Master file store location where the CCFE package file is located. Default: puppet:///files/ccfe

package_file: The CCFE package filename. Default: ccfe-1.57-1.noarch.rpm

menu_wrapper: Whether or not to create the /usr/bin/menu wrapper script so users can just type menu. Default: true

workspace: The directory on the Puppet agent host that is used to store the package file before it is installed. Default: /root/ccfe

Class that creates ccfe::menu resources from a ccfe::menus hash in hiera or the config parameter.

title: The unique menu id.

description: The title that will be displayed above the menu. Default: $title

user: The user that the menu files will be owned by. Default: root

group: The group that the menu files will be owned by. Default: root

items: A hash of ccfe::item resources to create under this menu. Default: {}

Class that creates ccfe::item resources from a ccfe::menus hash in hiera or the config parameter.

title: The unique menu item id

parent: The parent menu that this item is part of. Required.

action: The action to take when this meny item is selected. Can be either menu:[menu name] to select another menu or run:[command] to execute a command. Required.

description: The menu item description that is displayed. Default: $title

Not all CCFE functionality is supported and in particular support for forms in missing.

The EPEL repository must be enabled so that the required perl-Curses dependency can be installed.

License: Apache License, Version 2.0

GitHub URL: https://github.com/erwbgy/puppet-ccfe