Configure a setting in the “puppet.conf” file in Puppet Enterprise

Configure a setting in the puppet.conf file such as runinternal, use-cached-catalog, or http-proxy-host in Puppet Enterprise. See a list of configuration settings in our documentation.

Version and installation information

PE version: All supported

Solution

You have options when configuring a setting in the puppet.conf file. To configure a setting on a small number of agents, use the command line. To configure a setting on several agents, use the puppet_conf or inifile modules from The Forge.

Configure the setting on the command line

To configure the setting on the command line, run:

sudo puppet config set <SETTING NAME> <VALUE> --section <CONFIG SECTION>` 

For example, to configure the runinterval setting to three hours with the puppet config set command, run:

sudo puppet config set runinterval 3h --section agent 

To learn more about configuring settings on the command line, read our documentation.

Configure the setting for multiple agents using the puppet_conf module

To configure the setting for multiple agents, download the puppet_conf module in The Forge. The module installs a task in PE for you to configure the parameter on multiple agents.

Configure the setting to apply to nodes with matching classes using the inifile module

To configure the setting on an agent and automatically have the setting apply to nodes with matching classes, download the inifile module in The Forge, and use Puppet code to manage the parameters in the puppet.conf file.