Puppet discovery

[Ryan Murphy]

Anyone getting Discovery to pull data from a windows server?

Their lack of documentation isn't helping.  I've probably made one of my servers totally insecure trying to get this to work... it just keeps failing telling me access is denied.  What do I need to do on the Windows server to get it working?

[andy.raj...@puppet.com]

Hi Ryan

I have been able to setup discovery to pull data from windows machines. 2 things you need to do to get the data flowing to your discovery instance

1. configure Winrm for basic authentication. Details here - https://github.com/masterzen/winrm#preparing-the-remote-windows-machine-for-basic-authentication

2. Allow Winrm to communicate beyond local subnet - on the inbound rules for the windows firewall, configure the Winrm services to receive requests from all subnets. Its configured to respond to WinRm requests from IP address in the local subnets only (see screenshot attached)

Hope that helps

Thanks

Andy