windows_pagefile resource¶

Use the windows_pagefile resource to configure pagefile settings on Windows.

New in Chef Client 14.0.

Syntax¶

The windows_pagefile resource has the following syntax:

windows_pagefile 'name' do
  automatic_managed      true, false # default value: false
  initial_size           Integer
  maximum_size           Integer
  path                   String # default value: 'name' unless specified
  system_managed         true, false
  action                 Symbol # defaults to :set if not specified
end

where:

windows_pagefile is the resource.
name is the name given to the resource block.
action identifies which steps the chef-client will take to bring the node into the desired state.
automatic_managed, initial_size, maximum_size, path, and system_managed are the properties available to this resource.

Actions¶

The windows_pagefile resource has the following actions:

:set: Default. Configures the default pagefile, creating if it doesn’t exist.
:delete: Deletes the specified pagefile.
: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¶

The windows_pagefile resource has the following properties:

automatic_managed

Ruby Type: true, false | Default Value: false

Enable automatic management of pagefile initial and maximum size. Setting this to true ignores ‘initial_size’ and ‘maximum_size’ properties.

initial_size

Ruby Type: Integer

Initial size of the pagefile in megabytes.

maximum_size

Ruby Type: Integer

Maximum size of the pagefile in megabytes.

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

path

Ruby Type: String | Default Value: 'name'

The path to the pagefile if different from the resource name.

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

system_managed

Ruby Type: true, false

Configures whether the system manages the pagefile size.