PE Install Question (Console/Master on one host, PuppetDB on another)

[Matthew Reams]

Hi,

Has anyone successfully performed this scenario?

I'm installing Puppet Enterprise 3.1, and want to have the Console service running  on the Puppet Master.  However, I want to have the PuppetDB service on another server.  It seems like the installer either puts all of the services on one host, or separate out to three hosts.  

I saw this discussed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/bkki85mAs8g

However, I'm not able to get my Puppet Master to use the PuppetDB instance on another server.  The puppetdb.conf keeps getting overwritten with the hostname of the Puppet Master.

It looks like there is a puppetdb module in /opt/puppet/share/modules, so I thought I could define the puppetdb_server variable for my Puppet Master node

node 'puppet' {

  class { 'puppetdb::master::config':

    puppetdb_server => 'puppetdb',

  }

}

Yet, when the agent runs, I get

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Duplicate declaration: Class[Puppetdb::Master::Config] is already declared in file /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environment/production/manifests/nodes.pp:7; cannot redeclare at /opt/puppet/share/puppet/modules/pe_puppetdb/manifests/master.pp:38 on node puppet

Any ideas?