Puppet users - Jul 2013 - How can I read registry values?

I should read the values of some registry keys like 
''HKLM\SOFTWARE\Puppet\WCM\Initial_Setup''.

How can I do this?

Thanx

Tinu

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There is the registry module (
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/registry) although it doesn''t
appear
to let you read a value in the registry.

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM, tinu <tinu.walther@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should read the values of some registry keys like
> ''HKLM\SOFTWARE\Puppet\WCM\Initial_Setup''.
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Thanx
>
> Tinu
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Hi Tinu,


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, tinu <tinu.walther@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should read the values of some registry keys like
> ''HKLM\SOFTWARE\Puppet\WCM\Initial_Setup''.
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Thanx
>
> Tinu
>
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Something like this should work:

require ''win32/registry''

Win32::Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.open(*''*SOFTWARE\Puppet\WCM\Initial_Setup'')
do |reg|
  value = reg[''foo'']
end

Note win32/registry is part of the ruby stdlib:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/dl/rdoc/Win32/Registry.html

There are also methods to read values as REG_DWORD, REG_EXPAND_SZ, etc.

Josh

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