puppet agent
Retrieves the client configuration from a Puppet server and applies it to the local host. More information: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/man/agent.html.
- Register a node at a Puppet server and apply the received catalog:
puppet agent --test --server puppetserver_fqdn --serverport port --waitforcert poll_time
- Run the agent in the background (uses settings from
puppet.conf):
puppet agent
- Run the agent once in the foreground, then exit:
puppet agent --test
- Run the agent in dry-mode:
puppet agent --test --noop
- Log every resource being evaluated (even if nothing is being changed):
puppet agent --test --evaltrace
- Disable the agent:
puppet agent --disable "message"
- Enable the agent:
puppet agent --enable