puppet-agent -t command fails with error "Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to find puppetclient.example.com via exec: Execution of '/etc/puppet/node.rb puppetclient.example.com' returned 1"

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Issue

  • puppet-agent -t command fails with error Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to find puppetclient.example.com via exec: Execution of '/etc/puppet/node.rb puppetclient.example.com' returned 1
  • Receiving the following error with puppet-agent command:
[root@puppetclient]# puppet agent -tv 
Info: Caching certificate for puppetclient.example.com
Info: Caching certificate_revocation_list for ca
Info: Caching certificate for puppetclient.example.com
Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to find puppetclient.example.com via exec: Execution of '/etc/puppet/node.rb puppetclient.example.com' returned 1: 
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
  • Receiving the following error with /etc/puppet/node.rb command on Satellite:
[root@satellite ~]# /etc/puppet/node.rb puppetclient.example.com
Error retrieving node puppetclient.example.com: Net::HTTPPreconditionFailed
Check Foreman's /var/log/foreman/production.log for more information.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2
  • Puppet

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