windows_printer¶

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Use the windows_printer resource to setup Windows printers. This resource does not install a printer driver; you must already have the driver installed on the system.

New in Chef Client 14.0.

Syntax¶

This resource has the following syntax:

windows_printer 'name' do
  comment                    String
  default                    True, False # default value: 'false'
  device_id                  String # default value: 'name'
  driver_name                String # required
  ipv4_address               String
  location                   String
  notifies                   # see description
  shared                     True, False # default value: 'false'
  share_name                 String
  subscribes                 # see description
  action                     Symbol # defaults to :create if not specified
end

where:

windows_printer is the resource
'name' is the device name, or the name of the resource block
comment, default, device_id, driver_name, exists, ipv4_address, location, notifies, shared, share_name, and subscribes are the properties available to this resource

Actions¶

:create: Default. Create a new printer and printer port, if one doesn’t already exist.
:delete: Delete an existing printer. Note that this resource does not delete the associated printer port.
:nothing: Define this resource block to do nothing until notified by another resource to take action. When this resource is notified, this resource block is either run immediately or it is queued up to be run at the end of the Chef Client run.

Properties¶

comment

Ruby Type: String

Optional descriptor for the printer queue.

default

Ruby Type: True, False | Default Value: false

Determines whether or not this should be the system’s default printer.

device_id

Ruby Type: String | Default Value: 'name'

Printer queue name, such as: "HP LJ 5200 2nd floor".

driver_name

Ruby Type: String

Required. The exact name of the installed printer driver on the system.

ipv4_address

Ruby Type: String

The IPv4 address of the printer.

location

Ruby Type: String

Printer location, such as: "2nd floor copy room".

notifies

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may notify another resource to take action when its state changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action that resource should take, and then the :timer for that action. A resource may notify more than one resource; use a notifies statement for each resource to be notified.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for notifies is:

notifies :action, 'resource[name]', :timer

shared

Ruby Type: True, False | Default Value: false

Determines whether or not the printer is shared.

share_name

Ruby Type: String

The name used to identify the shared printer.

subscribes

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may listen to another resource, and then take action if the state of the resource being listened to changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action to be taken, and then the :timer for that action.

Note that subscribes does not apply the specified action to the resource that it listens to - for example:

file '/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt' do
   mode '0600'
   owner 'root'
end

service 'nginx' do
   subscribes :reload, 'file[/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt]', :immediately
end

In this case the subscribes property reloads the nginx service whenever its certificate file, located under /etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt, is updated. subscribes does not make any changes to the certificate file itself, it merely listens for a change to the file, and executes the :reload action for its resource (in this example nginx) when a change is detected.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for subscribes is:

subscribes :action, 'resource[name]', :timer