Modifying the State of a Puppet Resource

You can also use the puppet resource command to modify the state of a resource. You would use this method in lieu of directly modifying the configuration within a Puppet manifest.

For example, you would modify the state of the service resource type as follows:

# puppet resource service svc:/network/dns/client:default enable=false
Notice: /Service[svc:/network/dns/client:default]/enable: enable changed 'true' to 'false'
service { 'svc:/network/dns/client:default':
  ensure => 'stopped',
  enable => 'false',
}