Puppet service fails with Could not find terminus rest for indirection catalog after upgrading from puppet 3 to puppet 4 on Red Hat Satellite 6 client

Issue

• On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 after upgrading from puppet 3 to puppet 4 while restarting puppet service below error is captured in /var/log/messages .

warning     Puppet  Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
warning     Puppet  Could not find terminus rest for indirection node
err     /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]  Failed to generate additional resources using 'eval_generate': Could not find terminus file for indirection file_metadata
err     /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib]  Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet://rhel6.example.com/plugins: Could not find terminus rest for indirection file_metadata
err     Puppet  Failed to apply catalog: Could not find terminus rest for indirection catalog