Automatic Agent installation from dashboard?

[Deep]

Hi,

Is there an option in puppet to automatically install agent in an unmanaged node in the network from the dashboard?

eg: I have a network of windows and linux servers which doesn't have the puppet agent installed. Is it possible to push the agent from puppet server to these unmanaged nodes by specifying hostname/IP address or some other parameters?

[Juan Sierra Pons]

Hi,

AFAIK not from the dashboard but you can launch remote commands to the
servers to install the puppet client and launch puppet agent --test to
ask the puppetmaster for a signed certificate.

Create a file named RemoteCommands.txt with the following content :
(This is for Debian and puppet community, Adapt to your OS flavor and
puppet version)

wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb && \
dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb && rm -f puppetlabs-release-wheezy.deb \
apt-get update && apt-get -y install puppet
update-alternatives --set ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
puppet agent --test

Launch this one for each server
ssh root@remoteserver1 /bin/bash < RemoteCommands.txt

For windows I suppose that similar can be done using powershell.

Hope it helps.

Best regards

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Take a look at this as well - https://github.com/hashicorp/puppet-bootstrap

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