On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, October 1, 2012 3:56:42 PM UTC-5, Darin Perusich wrote:
>>
>> Is there an way for puppet to not check whether a service is running
>> or not? I'm basically looking for the equivalent of enable => manual
>> for Linux systems, I think. This would be useful when the service
>> itself is under the control of a CRM like Pacemaker or I want to give
>> control of the service to an end user, say both tomcat and glassfish
>> are on the same box and they want to run one instead of the other.
>
>
>
> I suspect it's not possible to prevent Puppet from checking whether a
> managed service is running, but it may be possible to prevent it from
> managing whether the service is running. Try omitting the 'ensure'
> parameter altogether.
You are correct...by omitting the "ensure" the service is no longer
checked to if it's running or not.
Thanks!
> Note that if you're not managing whether the service is running, then the
> only other thing about it you can be managing is whether it starts at boot
> (via the 'enable' parameter). If you don't want to manage that either, then
> just don't declare a Service resource in the first place.
>
>
>>
>> Supposedly the Example42 modules support this by disableboot=>true,
>> but that doesn't appear to do anything other than set "enable =>
>> false" for the service and I don't see how that stops Puppet from
>> checking whether the service is up or down.
>>
>
> It doesn't, but what's the harm in just checking?
>
> I haven't looked at the modules you're talking about, but perhaps they do as
> I suggested? It would be fairly easy to overlook complete omission of a
> parameter -- much more so than to overlook a special parameter value.
>
>
> John
>
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