Puppet users - Dec 2013 - Automatic installation of puppet agent from puppet master

HI,

Is there a way in puppet to automatically install agents in unmanaged node 
from the puppet dashboard or backend?

eg: I have a network with a mixture of linux and windows servers.I can 
include the puppet agent in the OS installation phase or do it manually in 
servers. 
But, is there an option in the puppet to install agents on these nodes by 
mentioning Hostname/IP address or other related parameters?

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Hi Deep,

Not that i am aware off. As puppet is a pull job and not push. master dont 
push any thing to puppet agent. All i am saying there may be a way of which 
i am not aware!

I suggest include puppet agent installation as a part of OS installation, i 
have included it in the VMware templates and in the post installation just 
run "puppet agent --test" for the 1st time so that it generates cert 
request to master!

HTH
-Kaustubh

On Friday, December 6, 2013 8:12:23 AM UTC-5, Deep
wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> Is there a way in puppet to automatically install agents in unmanaged node 
> from the puppet dashboard or backend?
>
> eg: I have a network with a mixture of linux and windows servers.I can 
> include the puppet agent in the OS installation phase or do it manually in 
> servers. 
> But, is there an option in the puppet to install agents on these nodes by 
> mentioning Hostname/IP address or other related parameters?
>
>
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You can have autosign enabled on the puppet master but I don''t
recommend it.
You want to have control over the initial deployments since by just blanket 
auto-signing, you may run into some major issues with too much change too
suddenly.

As you gain experience, you can bulk sign in chunks once your initial signs 
and
time have been producing no impact.

Consider a Puppet run on a node a potentially dangerous 
production-affecting outage-causing
operation like any other.

On Friday, December 6, 2013 5:12:23 AM UTC-8, Deep wrote:
> HI,
>
> Is there a way in puppet to automatically install agents in unmanaged node 
> from the puppet dashboard or backend?
>
> eg: I have a network with a mixture of linux and windows servers.I can 
> include the puppet agent in the OS installation phase or do it manually in 
> servers. 
> But, is there an option in the puppet to install agents on these nodes by 
> mentioning Hostname/IP address or other related parameters?
>
>
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