service puppet not managed on PE 2016.1.2

[Raskil]

Hi,

we face a problem with the pupept_agent module and our PE 2016.1.2 Infrastructure. It looks like the service puppet is not managed on a node if we apply pupept_agent. It looks like puppet_agent ist not including the service definitions in pe:

    # On windows, our MSI handles the services
    # On PE AIO nodes, PE Agent nodegroup is managing the services
    if $::osfamily != 'windows' and (!is_pe or versioncmp($::clientversion, '4.0.0') < 0) {
      class { '::puppet_agent::service':
        require => Class['::puppet_agent::install'],
      }

I've reviewed the classes of "PE Agent nodegroup" and none of them is managing the puppet agent service (mcollective and pxp-agent are managed thogh). Would it be possible to manage the puppet agent service with this module on a pe infradtructure as well?

Regards

Raskil

[MikaelSmith]

@highb do you remember why it's coded that way? I thought it was to avoid conflict in the PE modules, but I can't find code managing the puppet service either.

[highb]

@MikaelSmith Yeah, I think it's because the windows install script that the puppet_agent module runs also attempts to manage the service and we didn't want those to conflict with each other.

[geoffnichols]

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[kenyon]

I found this issue while researching how to properly manage the puppet service under Puppet Enterprise. As far as I can tell, this issue is still valid, there doesn't seem to be an official way to manage the puppet service with puppet on PE. The same observation was made here: #461 (comment)