Puppet users - Sep 2014 - client not seeing changes made on puppetmaster

Greetings,

I have a class for which I would like to simply print a few parameters 
about a node, before actually running any additional modules on the client 
itself.  The problem I'm seeing is that after making changes to the class, 
I don't see them being propagated to the puppet client.  Occasionally if I 
restart puppet services on both client and master, the changes will get 
pulled down.  In other occasions, after a certain amount of time, the 
changes will just magically appear to get pulled down by the client.  Does 
anybody know why this may be occurring?  It's driving me mad.

I have a vanilla puppet client running puppet 3.6.2 and a puppet master 
running version 3.6.2. and both have been recently built.

*Site.pp:*

# test node
node seanconnery-01 {
  include role
}

class role {
  include profile::base
}

class profile::base {
  include sys_ident
}


*sys_ident/init.pp*

class sys_ident {
  notify { 'system hostname':
    withpath => true,
    name     => "my fqdn is $fqdn",
    }

  notify {'network location':
    withpath => true,
    name     => "my network is ${network}",
  }
}

*Upon running the client, I get the expected output:*
seanconnery-01:~$ sudo puppet agent -tv
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/network.rb
Info: Caching catalog for seanconnery-01.domain
Info: Applying configuration version '1409858463'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[network location]/message: my network 
is greenzone
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[network location]/message: defined 
'message' as 'my network is greenzone'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[system hostname]/message: my fqdn is 
seanconnery-01.domain
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[system hostname]/message: defined 
'message' as 'my fqdn is seanconnery-01.domain
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.04 seconds

*However, if I add another notify to the sys_ident/init.pp like so:*

class sys_ident {
  notify { 'system hostname':
    withpath => true,
    name     => "my fqdn is $fqdn",
    }

  notify {'network location':
    withpath => true,
    name     => "my network is ${network}",
  }

  notify {'swapfree':
    withpath => true,
    name     => "my swap is ${swapfree}",
  }
}

*I get the following on my client:*
seanconnery-01:~$ sudo puppet agent -tv
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/network.rb
Info: Caching catalog for seanconnery-01.domain
Info: Applying configuration version '1409858679'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[network location]/message: my network 
is greenzone
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[network location]/message: defined 
'message' as 'my network is greenzone'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[system hostname]/message: my fqdn is 
seanconnery-01.domain'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Sys_ident/Notify[system hostname]/message: defined 
'message' as 'my fqdn is seanconnery-01.domain'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.04 seconds

After a certain amount of undetermined time, the client will finally pickup 
the changes but there's no rhyme or reason to it.
Has anybody else ever seen this behavior?  I can't for the life of me 
figure it out.

As always, your help is much appreciated.

m.




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