Set node name in puppet to noop option

Question

I'm using puppet and want to test it with noop, but some configuration depends on the hostname like the node types.

How can I set the node name and run puppet with noop to check the node configuration that match the node name?, currently i got this as error message (my laptop is solaria):

Could not find default node or by name with 'solaria, solaria.lan' on node solaria.lan

Thanks.

Answer 1

puppetd --test --noop --fqdn="hostname.example.com"

Or with 2.6, this may be preferable:

puppet agent --test --noop--fqdn="hostname.example.com"

This will tend to create new certificates on the puppet master, so you'll probably need to run puppetca --clean hostname.example.com on the puppet master afterwords, otherwise when you finally get hosts with those names they'll be unable to set up an SSL relationship with the master.

Answer 2

I just figure out one possible solution, adding this to my config file

nodename = cert
certname = hostname