Puppet users - Aug 2012 - puppet kick not working against windows service

I am running puppet 2.7.14 - CentOS 6 server, CentOS and windows 2008 R2 
clients. 

I''m having problems with the "puppet kick" command - it works
on linux
clients, and on my windows box when "puppet agent --no-daemonize
--verbose"
is run from a command prompt. However, when I run it as a windows service, 
I get "Host blah failed: Connection refused - connect(2)" and
"blah
finished with exit code 2". Any idea why the behaviour might be different 
when running as a service vs running from the "Start Command Prompt with 
Puppet" window?

I did  a test with "process monitor" from the windows resource toolkit
and
it looks like the service is actually running ''ruby  -S --
"puppet" agent
--onetime''..? 

Is there a way to force the windows service to use listen mode? I''ve 
modified C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc\puppet.conf to have "[agent] 
listen=true" but that seems not to be working (at least not when run as a 
service).

Thanks!


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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Matt F <mfan2006@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am running puppet 2.7.14 - CentOS 6 server, CentOS and windows 2008 R2
> clients.
>
> I''m having problems with the "puppet kick" command - it
works on linux
> clients, and on my windows box when "puppet agent --no-daemonize
--verbose"
> is run from a command prompt. However, when I run it as a windows service,
I
> get "Host blah failed: Connection refused - connect(2)" and
"blah finished
> with exit code 2". Any idea why the behaviour might be different when
> running as a service vs running from the "Start Command Prompt with
Puppet"
> window?
>
> I did  a test with "process monitor" from the windows resource
toolkit and
> it looks like the service is actually running ''ruby  -S --
"puppet" agent
> --onetime''..?
>
> Is there a way to force the windows service to use listen mode?
I''ve
> modified C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\etc\puppet.conf to have
"[agent]
> listen=true" but that seems not to be working (at least not when run
as a
> service).
The listen option isn''t supported yet. See issue #15838.

Nan

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Thanks Nan.
>
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Thanks Nan! Do you know if windows support of "-listen" is planned for
any
future release? (it''s not clear to me reading the bug that you
referenced).

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Hi Matt,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Matt F <mfan2006@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Nan! Do you know if windows support of "-listen" is
planned for any
> future release? (it''s not clear to me reading the bug that you
referenced).
Minor clarification. Puppet supports --listen on Windows, i.e. when
executing `puppet agent --listen`. But not when installed as a service
using the daemon.rb wrapper (which is the out-of-the-box
configuration). The reasons for this are memory usage issues
associated with long running ruby processes[1], security implications
of a network server running as LocalSystem, etc.

So it is possible to change the "Puppet Agent" service to run
something different, but it''s not something that I would encourage due
to the problems mentioned above.

The long term plan is to deprecate puppet kick[2] in favor of using
mcollective (mcollective 2.0 supports Windows)[3]. There is also an
executable installer[4] from the community.

HTH,
Josh

[1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11044
[2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15735
[3] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12555
[4] http://www.kermit.fr/documentation/mcollective/windows_install.html

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I''ve installed mcollective, and I can get data from the client (IE:
"mco
inventory mywindowsclient"). I''ve configured the puppetd agent
plugin, and
that shows up in the "mco inventory" output as well. However, I still 
cannot trigger puppet to update on the client. Any idea of what the cause 
might be, or what next steps I can take to debug this? thx.

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BTW: I''m seeing the following on the client, in the mcollective log -
not
sure if this is an issue:

D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing total stat
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing validated stat
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Failed based on 
identity
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Passing based on 
agent puppetd
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Message failed the 
filter checks
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing filtered stat
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : runner.rb Message does not 
pass filters, ignoring
D, [2012-08-22T12:15:14.761477 #3224] DEBUG -- : stomp.rb Waiting for a 
message from Stomp

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Here''s the mcollective.log from the client:
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing total stat
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing validated stat
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Passing based on 
agent puppetd
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Passing based on 
identity
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Message passed the 
filter checks
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing passed stat
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runner.rb Handling message 
for agent ''puppetd'' on collective
''mcollective''
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : agents.rb Dispatching a 
message to agent puppetd
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : stomp.rb Waiting for a 
message from Stomp
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
new plugin puppetd_agent with class MCollective::Agent::Puppetd
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : ddl.rb Found puppetd ddl 
at C:\mcollective\plugins/mcollective/agent/puppetd.ddl
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Encoded a message 
for request 7edf85764752fbda37ea8b8efbfedf70
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning 
cached plugin connector_plugin with class MCollective::Connector::Stomp
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : stomp.rb Sending a 
broadcast message to STOMP target
''/topic/mcollective.puppetd.reply''
D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb 
Incrementing replies stat



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Hi Matt,

I''m not sure what the issue is. I recommend posting to the
mcollective-users list.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Matt F <mfan2006@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here''s the mcollective.log from the client:
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb
Incrementing
> total stat
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb
Incrementing
> validated stat
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Passing based on
> agent puppetd
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Passing based on
> identity
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Message passed the
> filter checks
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb
Incrementing
> passed stat
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : runner.rb Handling message
> for agent ''puppetd'' on collective
''mcollective''
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : agents.rb Dispatching a
> message to agent puppetd
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : stomp.rb Waiting for a
> message from Stomp
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> new plugin puppetd_agent with class MCollective::Agent::Puppetd
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.907044 #3224] DEBUG -- : ddl.rb Found puppetd ddl
at
> C:\mcollective\plugins/mcollective/agent/puppetd.ddl
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin security_plugin with class MCollective::Security::Psk
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : base.rb Encoded a message
> for request 7edf85764752fbda37ea8b8efbfedf70
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : pluginmanager.rb Returning
> cached plugin connector_plugin with class MCollective::Connector::Stomp
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : stomp.rb Sending a
> broadcast message to STOMP target
''/topic/mcollective.puppetd.reply''
> D, [2012-08-22T13:54:28.953920 #3224] DEBUG -- : runnerstats.rb
Incrementing
> replies stat
>
>
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