puppet agent --test fails when run before puppet daemon obtains signed cert from master Hmm, it seems to fail even after waiting for 2 mins. But if I manually run puppet agent —test after even more time, it succeeds. Would it be possible for you to post the portion of the bootstrap The problem may be due to the node endpoint request that the agent makes returning less data in the response when no prior facts are available on the server to add into the response. This problem appears to only affect Puppet 3.8.7 and not Puppet 4.x - and happens whether the master is Puppet Server or a WEBrick master running Puppet 3.8.7 code. Register. If you are a new customer, register now for access to product evaluations and purchasing capabilities. Need access to an account? If your company has an existing Red Hat account, your organization administrator can grant you access. From the console of the puppet master we need to check for the signing requests with. puppetca --list. We can sign the request with. puppetca --sig web1. Returning to the web1 puppet agent we can manually run the puppet client again; remember we did not start the service just ran the client: puppetd --test Puppet Agent fails; Could not retrieve local facts - but Manually runs successfully Puppet Agent and master are at 2.7.25 Manual runs of facter and puppet `puppet agent -t` complete successfully and produce no errors. how were if puppet runs either as service daemon or cron I get the above Force to apply changes through puppet on a puppet agent, through master? but puppet agent is installed on the server and I can apply the changes on the server by running the puppet agent, but as its not running automatically and I cannot login to run it manually, how to run it and apply However, for production environments you'll likely want to manually sign agent requests, or use Puppet's policy-based interface for autosigning certificates. Puppet Agent Installation. The Linux agent deployed by this Quick