While most people know you can use puppet to ensure a service is running the mechanism it uses to determine if a service is actually running is often unexplored.
By default (at least up to Puppet 2.6) puppet assumes that a service doesn’t supply a working status option and so will look up the services name in the process table to check if it’s running. If your service does support the status argument you can set ‘hasstatus => true’ and the platforms service provider will be used to interrogate the services current status.
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