agent not launching on windows client

[pko...@moleculevfx.com]

I've been struggling to get puppet agent 7.12 to run by itself on windows 10. I'm watching for runs on the event viewer in Custom Views > Administrative Events.

It seems that it will run dependably/independently if I 

1) change the puppet.conf "runinterval=30m" to "runinterval=1800" AND 

2) change Puppet Agent service to automatic AND 

3) after I run it manually at least once. 

The problem is that I need it to run withOUT being run manually.

Suggestions?

[pko...@moleculevfx.com]

My current puppet.conf:

[main]
certname=windowscw.example.com
server=puppet
autoflush=true
manage_internal_file_permissions=false
environment=development
runinterval=1800

[Andrew Jones]

Open a power shell window and run `puppet resource service puppet` you should see something like this;

PS C:\Users\Administrator> puppet resource service puppet
service { 'puppet':
  ensure       => 'running',
  enable       => 'true',
  logonaccount => 'LocalSystem',
  provider     => 'windows',
}
This will tell you if the service is running. 

[pko...@moleculevfx.com]

Thank you!

And instead I see:

C:\Windows\system32>puppet resource service puppet
service { 'puppet':
  ensure       => 'stopped',

  enable       => 'true',
  logonaccount => 'LocalSystem',
  provider     => 'windows',
}

so....my currrent code already has this:
'windows': {
  service { 'puppet'  : ensure =>  'running', enable => true, }

}
I'll run puppet with debug and see what's happening...but basically, it doesn't seem like its saving the state.

[Andrew Jones]

I'd be tempted to put a https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/types/notify.html into your code temporarily to ensure that it's being enforced.

Try running `puppet resource service puppet ensure=running` in powershell and see if you can switch it on manually from there.

Could there be some other agent or group policy that is shutting the puppet service down?

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[pko...@moleculevfx.com]

Once again I appreciate your help @Andrew.

Since I'm running profiles/roles I did you what recommended and I also added service { 'puppet'  : ensure =>  'running', enable => true, }

 to my role in addition to my profile ...which seemed to really work and makes me think the profile code wasn't working.

-peter