Automatic installation of puppet agent from puppet master

[Deep]

HI,

Is there a way in puppet to automatically install agents in unmanaged node from the puppet dashboard or backend?

eg: I have a network with a mixture of linux and windows servers.I can include the puppet agent in the OS installation phase or do it manually in servers. 

But, is there an option in the puppet to install agents on these nodes by mentioning Hostname/IP address or other related parameters?

[kaustubh chaudhari]

Hi Deep,

Not that i am aware off. As puppet is a pull job and not push. master dont push any thing to puppet agent. All i am saying there may be a way of which i am not aware!

I suggest include puppet agent installation as a part of OS installation, i have included it in the VMware templates and in the post installation just run "puppet agent --test" for the 1st time so that it generates cert request to master!

HTH
-Kaustubh

[Stuart Cracraft]

You can have autosign enabled on the puppet master but I don't recommend it.

You want to have control over the initial deployments since by just blanket

auto-signing, you may run into some major issues with too much change too

suddenly.

As you gain experience, you can bulk sign in chunks once your initial signs and

time have been producing no impact.

Consider a Puppet run on a node a potentially dangerous production-affecting outage-causing

operation like any other.