Problem with runonce in Puppet Enterprise console

[Ken Weiss]

I am trying to use the Puppet Enterprise console to execute an on-demand Puppet agent run on a single managed node. If I don't set any options for the runonce command, it works fine. But if I try to set any options at all, I get this error:

Cannot specify any custom puppet options when the daemon is running

There are only two Puppet-related processes running on the managed node:

> ps -ef | grep puppet

root     10883     1  0 Oct21 ?        00:03:11 /opt/puppet/bin/ruby /opt/puppet/bin/puppet agent

root     11810     1  0 Dec08 ?        00:00:44 /opt/puppet/bin/ruby /opt/puppet/sbin/mcollectived --pid /var/run/pe-mcollective.pid

Which one do I need to kill in order to be able to specify 'noop=true' when I execute the runonce from the console? And, if I kill the 'daemon' on the managed node, will mcollective still periodically run a 'puppet apply' on that node? Or will I then have to run Puppet manually from the console (or periodically from a cron entry) to ensure that the node is compliant with the state defined in Puppet?

--Ken