Hi Matt,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Matt F <[email protected]> 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

-- 
Josh Cooper
Developer, Puppet Labs

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