On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Francois Lafont <
francois.lafont.1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 04/01/2016 20:44, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>
> > Hello and happy new year to you as well,
>
> Thanks, ;)
>
> > In my CentOS 7 install of puppet-agent 1.3.2, the pxp-agent service is
> not
> > enabled or started by default.
>
> Ok. I have noticed that in Debian Jessie too.
> But in Ubuntu Trusty, the pxp-agent daemon seems enabled by default.
>

Hmm, pretty sure that inconsistency was unintentional. I filed
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-141 to track that.

Kylo


>
> > You can safely disable it without impacting the operations of Puppet.
>
> Ok. I'm going to do that in this case (I have several Trusty servers).
>
> > As you noticed, there's no listening service for pxp-agent. Think of it
> > more like a modern puppet-kick than a replacement for MCollective. In
> > Puppet Enterprise 2015.3, it's configured to connect to its broker and
> wait
> > for instructions like start a puppet run or inspect the state of the last
> > run. It's capable of doing more than this but that's its purpose today; a
> > light-weight way for puppet-server infrastructure to have more direct
> > control of when an agent enforces new configuration without changing how
> > the puppet-agent operates. We use this for the new orchestration service
> > and web console run puppet controls in PE. It will coexist with
> MCollective
> > until (and if) there's a compelling reason for them to converge. For
> > example, we don't provide extension APIs for PXP like you get with
> > MCollective. It's intended only for programmatic control of the
> > puppet-agent, today.
>
> Ok I see.
>
> > The broker [1], agent [2] and client libraries [3] are open-source for
> > those not running PE but I'm not aware of anything using it beyond PE
> (yet).
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/puppetlabs/pcp-broker
> > [2] https://github.com/puppetlabs/pxp-agent
> > [3] https://github.com/puppetlabs/cpp-pcp-client
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/clj-pcp-client
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-pcp-client
>
> Ok, that's clear for me now. Thanks for all these explanations. ;)
> Regards.
>
> François Lafont
>
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