147 C H A P T E R 7 | Systems management
$ConfigInfoIndex = @{
AllNodes = @(
@{
NodeName = "IndexFile.fcd03a8d-5a64-4982-92b3-5c89680add39"
}
)
}
Configuration IndexFile
{
Node $AllNodes.NodeName
{
File IndexFile
{
DestinationPath = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\index.htm"
Ensure = "Present"
Type = "File"
Force = $true
Contents = "
Website under construction. `
If you are seeing this page, it means the website is under maintenance and DSC Rocks
!!!!!
"
}
}
}
IndexFile -OutputPath 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\DscService\Configuration' -ConfigurationData
$ConfigInfoIndex
New-DSCCheckSum -ConfigurationPath 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\DscService\Configuration' -OutPath
'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\DscService\Configuration'
The MOF file is generated on the pull server DemoWinServer10 at the C:\Program
Files\WindowsPowerShell\DSCService\Configuration folder location. The checksum file for this
configuration is also generated the same way as for the previous configuration example.
Deploying the configurations
After addressing LCM and relevant authoring configurations for partial configurations, you apply
them on the destination server, in this case on DemoServerWin. DSC provides the Update-
DSCConfiguration cmdlet in its new release for performing consistency checks on a server. Running
this cmdlet with the localhost as the ComputerName parameter simultaneously downloads from the
pull server all relevant configurations (MOF content) defined by using LCM PartialConfiguration. LCM
then combines all the configurations into a single MOF file and applies it to the server. The following
example shows the Update-DSCConfiguration cmdlet for applying configuration:
PS C:\Users\me> Update-DSCConfiguration -ComputerName localhost
Id Name PSJobTypeName State HasMoreData Location Command
-- ---- ------------- ----- ----------- -------- -------
47 Job47 Configuratio... Running True localhost Update-DscConfiguration
Running the Get-DSCConfiguration cmdlet on this server provides all the resources (File and
WindowsFeature) applied as part of DSC configuration, as shown here:
PS C:\Users\riteshmodi> Get-DSCConfiguration
ConfigurationName :
DependsOn :
ModuleName :
ModuleVersion :
ResourceId :
SourceInfo :
Credential :
DisplayName : Web Server (IIS)
Ensure : Present
IncludeAllSubFeature : False
LogPath :
Name : Web-Server
Source :
PSComputerName :
ConfigurationName :
DependsOn :
ModuleName :
ModuleVersion :
