Inspec Detect Issues

[fcaviggia]

Description

Inspec is not properly pulling the architecture information from the host.

[root@rhel7 ~]# /usr/local/bin/inspec detect
{"name":null,"family":"redhat","release":"7.2","arch":null}

[fcaviggia@rhel7 ~]$ inspec detect
Operating System Details
------------------------
Name:
Family: redhat
Release: 7.2
Arch:

[fcaviggia@rhel7 ~]$ inspec shell
inspec> describe os.params.arch
NoMethodError: undefined method `params' for Operating System Detection:Inspec::Resource::Registry::Os
from (pry):5:in `load'

[fcaviggia@rhel7 ~]$ cat test-issue.rb
describe os.params.arch
[fcaviggia@rhel7 ~]$ inspec exec test-issue.rb
test-issue.rb:1:in `load': undefined method `arch' for {:name=>nil, :family=>"redhat", :release=>"7.2", :arch=>nil}:Hash (NoMethodError)
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/profile_context.rb:39:in `instance_eval'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/profile_context.rb:39:in `load'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:130:in `add_test_to_context'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:114:in `block in add_content'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:114:in `each'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:114:in `add_content'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:87:in `add_profile'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/runner.rb:51:in `add_target'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/utils/base_cli.rb:69:in `block in run_tests'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/utils/base_cli.rb:69:in `each'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/utils/base_cli.rb:69:in `run_tests'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/lib/inspec/cli.rb:111:in `exec'
        from /usr/local/share/gems/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
        from /usr/local/share/gems/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command'
        from /usr/local/share/gems/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor.rb:359:in `dispatch'
        from /usr/local/share/gems/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/base.rb:440:in `start'
        from /home/fcaviggia/.gem/ruby/gems/inspec-0.22.1/bin/inspec:9:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/local/bin/inspec:23:in `load'
        from /usr/local/bin/inspec:23:in `<main>'

Similar issues reported on Mac:

Aarons-MacBook-Air:~ aaronl$ inspec detect
Operating System Details
------------------------
Name: mac_os_x
Family: darwin
Release: 10.11.6
Arch:

InSpec and Platform Version

$ inspec version
0.22.1

RHEL 7.2, Mac OS 10.11.6

Replication Case

Seems reproducible on several platforms.

[chris-rock]

inspec shell
Welcome to the interactive InSpec Shell
To find out how to use it, type: help

inspec> os.params
=> {:name=>"mac_os_x", :family=>"darwin", :release=>"10.10.5", :arch=>nil}
inspec> os.params[:arch]
=> nil
inspec> os.params[:release]
=> "10.10.5"
inspec> exit

Okay, we have two issues here:

• we should make the content of params available via methods eg. os.arch add helper methods for os resource #774
• we need to ensure, that we read the architecture (fix in train required, @fcaviggia recommended to use arch command)

[chris-rock]

This is already available out of the box

inspec> os[:arch]
=> nil
inspec> os[:family]
=> "darwin"

[chris-rock]

this will be solved with release 0.29.0 that will depend on train 0.16