Puppet users - Sep 2014 - MCollective puppet runonce and puppet agent daemon conflict?

Hi,

I am using open source Puppet 3.6.2 with Dashboard and Mcollective. 

If I have puppet agent running and then from puppet master I run "mco 
puppet runonce --server puppetmaster_name", I will get this error:
Cannot specify any custom puppet options when the daemon is running

I understand that I do not need to have puppet agent running for the agent 
to work. 
I can stop it entirely and then trigger runs through mcollective -- in that 
setup it will happily pass custom arguments like --noop or --no-noop etc.

However, that's not exactly what I want. Here is what I want:

1. I want my puppet agent to be running so that it can retrieve the catalog 
from puppet master based on the runinterval set in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf 
on agent machine. For example,

#The interval between each puppet agent run, in seconds
     runinterval = 6000    

In one post, someone mentioned that if you did want periodic noop runs then 
just cron 
   puppet agent --daemonize --onetime --noop

So if I setup cron for puppet agent, that will run "puppet agent
--test"
based on the cron schedule? 

2. Occasionally, I want to push configuration change and don't want to wait 
until the next runinterval time. I want to push the change to my puppet 
agent machines using MCollective command line "mco puppet runonce". 

mco puppet runonce --server host_name

In this case, I always get "daemon is running" error, if puppet agent
is
running, if I use --server option.
If I use -I option (mco puppet runonce -I puppet-agent.example.com) 
<http://puppet-agent.example.com>, it works even if puppet agent daemon is
running.
What is the difference between option --server and -I? If I want to push 
configurations to multiple hosts, which option should I use?

Hope I make myself understood :)

Thanks a lot,
Stella

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