Newly-installed Driveclient agent skips registration

[ametts]

Nice work on this ansible role -- but I noticed that my driveclient Agent wasn't registering, because the package is installed with a default /etc/driveclient/bootstrap.json file. Since the configuration step is skipped when the bootstrap.json file is "created", registration never happens.

I fixed it on my system by grepping for the presence of 'blank unless registered', which is a string that appears in a freshly-installed bootstrap file:

- name: Check if agent is registered
  command: grep blank-unless-registered /etc/driveclient/bootstrap.json
  register: result
  ignore_errors: true

- name: Configure the agent
  shell: >
    /usr/local/bin/driveclient --configure --apikey {{ driveclient_apikey }} --username {{ driveclient_username }}
  when: result.stdout == "blank-unless-registered"
  tags:
    - driveclient
    - rackspace

[MikeParkin]

I also hit this problem, however the solution above was not working for me.

This was because result.stdout was never equal to "blank-unless-registered" as it also contained the other characters on the same line.

I solved this by taking an md5 sum of the file then checking the m5 signature using stat.

- name: Check if agent is registerd
  stat: path=/etc/driveclient/bootstrap.json
  register: driveclient

- name: Configure the agent
  shell: >
    /usr/local/bin/driveclient --configure --apikey {{ driveclient_apikey }} --username {{ driveclient_username }}
  when: driveclient.stat.exists != true or driveclient.stat.md5 == "f4378257a01efae3cbbce4f456fd1d1b"