puppet open-source and Mac client

[John Oliver]

I have puppet-server 3.8.3 and am working on making that go with a Mac running 10.10.5 "Mavericks".  I installed puppet-agent-1.2.6-1.osx10.10.dmg  When I run 'puppet agent --test' on the Mac, I get:

Error: Could not request certificate: Error 400 on SERVER: The environment must be purely alphanumeric, not 'puppet-ca'

Googling that puzzler quickly suggested a client version of puppet that's higher than the master.  I had looked into this before, and https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html suggests that there is no puppet agent that will work with open source puppet.  Please tell me that isn't the case!

[Martin Alfke]

Hi,

On 02 Dec 2015, at 17:12, John Oliver <jno...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have puppet-server 3.8.3 and am working on making that go with a Mac running 10.10.5 "Mavericks". I installed puppet-agent-1.2.6-1.osx10.10.dmg When I run 'puppet agent --test' on the Mac, I get:

Puppet-agent is Puppet 4. You either need to install the same puppet agent version as the master or upgrade your master.
Installation notes for Puppet 3.8 on OS X can be found here:
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/install_osx.html

Packages are here: http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/?_ga=1.239383939.1830287848.1420469550

>
> Error: Could not request certificate: Error 400 on SERVER: The environment must be purely alphanumeric, not 'puppet-ca'
>
> Googling that puzzler quickly suggested a client version of puppet that's higher than the master. I had looked into this before, and https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html suggests that there is no puppet agent that will work with open source puppet. Please tell me that isn't the case!
>

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[John Oliver]

Thanks.

So, the *latest* latest?  Or is there another page saying not to use version X of Y with version Q of Z?

I had seen that page, but it doesn't make clear that it's an *agent*... I took "install puppet" to mean just that.