windows_printer resource¶

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Use the windows_printer resource to setup Windows printers. Note that this doesn’t currently install a printer driver. You must already have the driver installed on the system.

New in Chef Client 14.0.

Syntax¶

The windows_printer resource has the following syntax:

windows_printer 'name' do
  comment           String
  default           true, false # default value: false
  device_id         String # default value: 'name' unless specified
  driver_name       String
  exists            true, false
  ipv4_address      String
  location          String
  share_name        String
  shared            true, false # default value: false
  action            Symbol # defaults to :create if not specified
end

where:

windows_printer 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.
comment, default, device_id, driver_name, exists, ipv4_address, location, share_name, and shared are the properties available to this resource.

Actions¶

The windows_printer resource has the following 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¶

The windows_printer resource has the following 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 in fifth floor copy room".

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, such as ‘10.4.64.23’.

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

share_name

Ruby Type: String

The name used to identify the shared printer.

shared

Ruby Type: true, false | Default Value: false

Determines whether or not the printer is shared.

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