Puppet users - Dec 2006 - Solaris snmpd/init.sma service

First off, new to puppet here, but so far it''s been exceptionally easy
to install and get running.  I''ve got it on a handful of solaris 10/x86
zones, and it''s working well.

I had one gotcha that I ran into, which turned out to be a combination
of a sun bug and and just some slight weirdness.  I was trying to get
the stock solaris snmpd service running (net-snmp 5, by this point,
actually, so it''s not too bizarre).  This one''s a slightly
strange
service, since the human name (snmpd) isn''t anything like the init.d
name (init.sma).  init.sma does have status and restart options, and
Luke suggested the following service definition:

        service { snmpd:
                name => "init.sma",
                ensure => running,
                provider => init,
                hasstatus => true,
                hasrestart => true,
        }

This, in fact works perfectly, modulo a bug in the init.sma script: the
status command exits 0 regardless of whether snmpd is running or not.
Modifying the script to exit 1 if snmpd isn''t running suffices to make
puppet start the service.

Thanks again to Luke.

  --rowan