Puppet How do i disable the default pull configuration so i can only push from my Puppet server when required

Question

I'm using a puppet server on linux machine and I have a puppet windows agent.

I would like to disable the agent runinterval permanently so that i can only push from my Puppet server as and when required. I followed a few suggestions that were available online that told me to include the following in Puppet server's /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf file, and restarted the server but still puppet agent fetches the catalog.

[agent]
daemonize=false

Is it possible to disable runinterval only on specific nodes. how?

Answer 1

In order to stop the Puppet service,you could do it easily with a puppet service resource:

service { 'puppet':
  ensure => stopped,
  enable => false,
}

To do this only on certain nodes, merely supply it for the corresponding node definitions in your classifier or main site manifest:

node /ones_to_disable/ {
  service { 'puppet':
    ensure => stopped,
    enable => false,
  }
}

This is the easy and common method for accomplishing push-style Puppet and disabling pull-style.