Can Puppet Enterprise remove agent nodes from inventory collection on a specific package provider?

You can only remove agent nodes from inventory collection in Puppet Enterprise. If you remove agent nodes from inventory collection on a specific package provider in PE, you get an error message.

Error message

Cannot collect packages for Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderPip provider

You get this error message on the agent node during a Puppet run in PE.

Version and installation information

PE version: All supported

OS: Windows servers 2016

Solution

Ignore the error message. The package collection will collect inventory from package providers in PE. The error message is PE’s way of logging an invalid package provider during a Puppet run.