connecting puppet master and agent

[krishna chaitanya kurnala]

HI

I am new to Puppet and having a tough time understanding the process of how Authentication works in puppet. I am trying to connect puppet 3.4 master and agent on a centos 6 machine. we use host files, rather than dns.
This could be a simple question, but, I want to learn to Concepts. I made sure puppet is running on both master and agent. Here is my configuration:

On Master:

in puppet.conf

[master]
   certname = host.company.com
   vardir = /var/lib/puppet

in /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 puppet
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
10.16.7.22 host.company.com puppetmaster puppet

On Agent:

in puppet.conf

[main]
    server = host.company.com

in /etc/hosts
10.16.7.22 host.company.com puppetmaster puppet

I still cant get them to authorize each other.
I am getting different errors:

On Agent:
sudo puppet agent --server=host.company.com --test

Error: Could not request certificate: Connection refused - connect(2)
Exiting; failed to retrieve certificate and waitforcert is disabled

If I change the certname to a fancy name, it gets even funnier, because, the agent looks for a host with than fancy name as there is no DNS. Please give some info on how to get that working too.

Can Someone please guide me.


Thanks
Krishna

[jcbollinger]

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:48:18 AM UTC-6, krishna chaitanya kurnala wrote:

Error: Could not request certificate: Connection refused - connect(2)

It looks like the firewall on your master is blocking the agent's connections to Puppet's service port. See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/installation.html#network.


John