Puppet Windows Service keeps stopping/starting

[jim]

Hello all,

Can anyone please help, every time I push a config to my hosts, the windows service I have just defined keeps stopping and starting, and logging in the eventlog, 

I only want the service to stop and start, if something has changed, and to my knowledge nothing has changed ? so it should stay running ?

Can some one please help or explain 

regards

James

[Josh Cooper]

Hi Jim,

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From http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#service,
"Note that if a service receives an event from another resource, the
service will get restarted."

Can you post your manifest? Sounds like your service is subscribed to
some other resource, perhaps a package whose name doesn't match its
name in Add/Remove Programs?

Josh

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[jim]

Hello Josh

Thanks for reply so quickly, here is my manifest, thinking about it, I assume it because i'm installing the agent every time, do I need to do something like if service doesn't exist install else ignore ?

regards

James

file { 'C:/Installs/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe':

source               => 'puppet:///modules/base/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe',

mode                 => '0770',

owner                => 'SYSTEM',

group                => 'Administrators',

} ->

exec { 'Check_MK_Agent':

command              => 'C:/Installs/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe /S',

} ~>

service { 'Check_MK_Agent':

ensure               => 'running',

enable               => true,

require              => exec['Check_MK_Agent'],

[jcbollinger]

On Friday, February 8, 2013 3:20:33 AM UTC-6, jim wrote:

Hello Josh

Thanks for reply so quickly, here is my manifest, thinking about it, I assume it because i'm installing the agent every time, do I need to do something like if service doesn't exist install else ignore ?

regards

James

file { 'C:/Installs/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe':

source               => 'puppet:///modules/base/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe',

mode                 => '0770',

owner                => 'SYSTEM',

group                => 'Administrators',

} ->

exec { 'Check_MK_Agent':

command              => 'C:/Installs/check-mk-agent-1.2.1i5.exe /S',

} ~>

service { 'Check_MK_Agent':

ensure               => 'running',

enable               => true,

require              => exec['Check_MK_Agent'],

}

It is because the Exec runs every time and has a signaling relationship (designated by ~>)  with the service.  (And note that the Service's 'require' of the Exec is redundant.)  An Exec changes state from "not run" to "run" when its command is successfully executed, and that triggers an event to be dispatched to any listeners.  Services restart if they receive events, which Puppet by default implements by stopping and then starting the service.

The best approach would probably be to package the install program and anything else associated with the service into an installable package (i.e. an .msi file) and have the Service depend on the package instead of directly on the installer program.  If that's not feasible, then you can use one or more of the Exec's 'onlyif', 'unless', and 'creates' parameters to instruct it whether it should execute the main command on any given catalog run.


John

[Josh Cooper]

Also, if you are using Puppet 3, then you can use the `package`
resource to install the executable. Just make sure the package name in
the manifest matches what's in Add/Remove Programs.