puppet agent --test Error Could not request certificate Connection refused - connect 2 for puppet port 8140 Exiting failed to retrieve certificate and waitforcert is disabled

Question

I am getting the above error when i'm trying to request sign the certificates. I have configured my server and agent properly and i am able to ping them from the other. where am i going wrong?

Answer 1

In the later versions of puppet we need to enable the pupet server. Check if this is done.

Only starting the puppet server & services will not work we have to enable the server as well. 

Following command is for starting the server :

puppet resource service puppetserver ensure=running

This command is to enable the server.

puppet resource service puppetserver enable=true