I am wondering whether it is possible to have Puppet only stop and disable 
a Windows service if it exists. I have Puppet master 3.1.1 on CentOS, and 
Puppet clients 3.1.1 on many Windows machines. Right now, I have the bit 
below for certain nodes:

service { "CVSNT":
ensure => 'stopped',
enable => 'false',
}

Some of the nodes have this service, some do not. Occasionally, new nodes 
are added that this applies to (through inherits statements), and these new 
nodes may or may not have this service. It's not just this service, either; 
I have an array of services I need to ensure won't run. I just simplified 
the above example with one service.

If the Windows node does not have the service, then the Puppet agent still 
runs successfully. But, when I run puppet agent --test in the Command 
Prompt with Puppet on the node, I get this error:

Error: /Stage[main]//Node[winbase]/Service[CVSNT]: Could not evaluate: 
Cannot get status of CVSNT, error was: The specified service does not exist 
as an installed service.

The agent continues to run and completes successfully. But, getting several 
of these lines at different points each time I run the Puppet agent makes 
testing and debugging whatever other module I'm working on a little 
difficult. I would like to get rid of the clutter.

I've been researching this topic for a while, and haven't come up with any 
solutions. Is there any way to have Puppet disable a Windows service only 
if it exists? Or, is there a way to suppress these warning lines 
without suppressing other output?

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