PUPPETCONF(5)

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Configuration Settings

•   Each of these settings can be specified in puppet.conf or on the command line.

•   When using boolean settings on the command line, use --setting and --no-setting instead of --setting (true|false).

•   Settings can be interpolated as $variables in other settings; $environment is special, in that puppet master will interpolate each agent node's environment instead of its own.

•   Multiple values should be specified as comma-separated lists; multiple directories should be separated with the system path separator (usually a colon).

•   Settings that take a single file or directory can optionally set the owner, group, and mode for their value: rundir = $vardir/run { owner = puppet, group = puppet, mode = 644 }

•   The Puppet executables will ignore any setting that isn't relevant to their function.

See the configuration guide http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/configuring.html for more details.

  allow_duplicate_certs
Whether to allow a new certificate request to overwrite an existing certificate.

•   Default: false

  archive_file_server
During an inspect run, the file bucket server to archive files to if archive_files is set.

•   Default: $server

  archive_files
During an inspect run, whether to archive files whose contents are audited to a file bucket.

•   Default: false

  async_storeconfigs
Whether to use a queueing system to provide asynchronous database integration. Requires that puppetqd be running and that 'PSON' support for ruby be installed.

•   Default: false

  authconfig
The configuration file that defines the rights to the different namespaces and methods. This can be used as a coarse-grained authorization system for both puppet agent and puppet master.

•   Default: $confdir/namespaceauth.conf

  autoflush
Whether log files should always flush to disk.

•   Default: true

  autosign
Whether to enable autosign. Valid values are true (which autosigns any key request, and is a very bad idea), false (which never autosigns any key request), and the path to a file, which uses that configuration file to determine which keys to sign.

•   Default: $confdir/autosign.conf

  bindaddress
The address a listening server should bind to. Mongrel servers default to 127.0.0.1 and WEBrick defaults to 0.0.0.0.

  bucketdir
Where FileBucket files are stored.

•   Default: $vardir/bucket

  ca
Wether the master should function as a certificate authority.

•   Default: true

  ca_days
How long a certificate should be valid, in days. This setting is deprecated; use ca_ttl instead

  ca_md
The type of hash used in certificates.

•   Default: md5

  ca_name
The name to use the Certificate Authority certificate.

•   Default: Puppet CA: $certname

  ca_port
The port to use for the certificate authority.

•   Default: $masterport

  ca_server
The server to use for certificate authority requests. It's a separate server because it cannot and does not need to horizontally scale.

•   Default: $server

  ca_ttl
The default TTL for new certificates; valid values must be an integer, optionally followed by one of the units 'y' (years of 365 days), 'd' (days), 'h' (hours), or 's' (seconds). The unit defaults to seconds. If this setting is set, ca_days is ignored. Examples are '3600' (one hour) and '1825d', which is the same as '5y' (5 years)

•   Default: 5y

  cacert
The CA certificate.

•   Default: $cadir/ca_crt.pem

  cacrl
The certificate revocation list (CRL) for the CA. Will be used if present but otherwise ignored.

•   Default: $cadir/ca_crl.pem

  cadir
The root directory for the certificate authority.

•   Default: $ssldir/ca

  cakey
The CA private key.

•   Default: $cadir/ca_key.pem

  capass
Where the CA stores the password for the private key

•   Default: $caprivatedir/ca.pass

  caprivatedir
Where the CA stores private certificate information.

•   Default: $cadir/private

  capub
The CA public key.

•   Default: $cadir/ca_pub.pem

  catalog_format
(Deprecated for 'preferred_serialization_format') What format to use to dump the catalog. Only supports 'marshal' and 'yaml'. Only matters on the client, since it asks the server for a specific format.

  catalog_terminus
Where to get node catalogs. This is useful to change if, for instance, you'd like to pre-compile catalogs and store them in memcached or some other easily-accessed store.

•   Default: compiler

  cert_inventory
A Complete listing of all certificates

•   Default: $cadir/inventory.txt

  certdir
The certificate directory.

•   Default: $ssldir/certs

  certdnsnames
The certdnsnames setting is no longer functional, after CVE-2011-3872. We ignore the value completely. For your own certificate request you can set dns_alt_names in the configuration and it will apply locally. There is no configuration option to set DNS alt names, or any other subjectAltName value, for another nodes certificate. Alternately you can use the --dns_alt_names command line option to set the labels added while generating your own CSR.

  certificate_revocation
Whether certificate revocation should be supported by downloading a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) to all clients. If enabled, CA chaining will almost definitely not work.

•   Default: true

  certname
The name to use when handling certificates. Defaults to the fully qualified domain name.

•   Default: wyclef.puppetlabs.lan

  classfile
The file in which puppet agent stores a list of the classes associated with the retrieved configuration. Can be loaded in the separate puppet executable using the --loadclasses option.

•   Default: $statedir/classes.txt

  client_datadir
The directory in which serialized data is stored on the client.

•   Default: $vardir/client_data

  clientbucketdir
Where FileBucket files are stored locally.

•   Default: $vardir/clientbucket

  clientyamldir
The directory in which client-side YAML data is stored.

•   Default: $vardir/client_yaml

  code
Code to parse directly. This is essentially only used by puppet, and should only be set if you're writing your own Puppet executable

  color
Whether to use colors when logging to the console. Valid values are ansi (equivalent to true), html, and false, which produces no color.

•   Default: ansi

  confdir
The main Puppet configuration directory. The default for this setting is calculated based on the user. If the process is running as root or the user that Puppet is supposed to run as, it defaults to a system directory, but if it's running as any other user, it defaults to being in the user's home directory.

•   Default: /etc/puppet

  config
The configuration file for doc.

•   Default: $confdir/puppet.conf

  config_version
How to determine the configuration version. By default, it will be the time that the configuration is parsed, but you can provide a shell script to override how the version is determined. The output of this script will be added to every log message in the reports, allowing you to correlate changes on your hosts to the source version on the server.

  configprint
Print the value of a specific configuration setting. If the name of a setting is provided for this, then the value is printed and puppet exits. Comma-separate multiple values. For a list of all values, specify 'all'.

  configtimeout
How long the client should wait for the configuration to be retrieved before considering it a failure. This can help reduce flapping if too many clients contact the server at one time.

•   Default: 120

  couchdb_url
The url where the puppet couchdb database will be created

•   Default: http://127.0.0.1:5984/puppet

  csrdir
Where the CA stores certificate requests

•   Default: $cadir/requests

  daemonize
Whether to send the process into the background. This defaults to true on POSIX systems, and to false on Windows (where Puppet currently cannot daemonize).

•   Default: true

  dbadapter
The type of database to use.

•   Default: sqlite3

  dbconnections
The number of database connections for networked databases. Will be ignored unless the value is a positive integer.

  dblocation
The database cache for client configurations. Used for querying within the language.

•   Default: $statedir/clientconfigs.sqlite3

  dbmigrate
Whether to automatically migrate the database.

•   Default: false

  dbname
The name of the database to use.

•   Default: puppet

  dbpassword
The database password for caching. Only used when networked databases are used.

•   Default: puppet

  dbport
The database password for caching. Only used when networked databases are used.

  dbserver
The database server for caching. Only used when networked databases are used.

•   Default: localhost

  dbsocket
The database socket location. Only used when networked databases are used. Will be ignored if the value is an empty string.

  dbuser
The database user for caching. Only used when networked databases are used.

•   Default: puppet

  deviceconfig
Path to the device config file for puppet device

•   Default: $confdir/device.conf

  devicedir
The root directory of devices' $vardir

•   Default: $vardir/devices

  diff
Which diff command to use when printing differences between files. This setting has no default value on Windows, as standard diff is not available, but Puppet can use many third-party diff tools.

•   Default: diff

  diff_args
Which arguments to pass to the diff command when printing differences between files. The command to use can be chosen with the diff setting.

•   Default: -u

  dns_alt_names
The comma-separated list of alternative DNS names to use for the local host. When the node generates a CSR for itself, these are added to the request as the desired subjectAltName in the certificate: additional DNS labels that the certificate is also valid answering as. This is generally required if you use a non-hostname certname, or if you want to use puppet kick or puppet resource -H and the primary certname does not match the DNS name you use to communicate with the host. This is unnecessary for agents, unless you intend to use them as a server for puppet kick or remote puppet resource management. It is rarely necessary for servers; it is usually helpful only if you need to have a pool of multiple load balanced masters, or for the same master to respond on two physically separate networks under different names.

  document_all
Document all resources

•   Default: false

  downcasefacts
Whether facts should be made all lowercase when sent to the server.

•   Default: false

  dynamicfacts
Facts that are dynamic; these facts will be ignored when deciding whether changed facts should result in a recompile. Multiple facts should be comma-separated.

•   Default: memorysize,memoryfree,swapsize,swapfree

  environment
The environment Puppet is running in. For clients (e.g., puppet agent) this determines the environment itself, which is used to find modules and much more. For servers (i.e., puppet master) this provides the default environment for nodes we know nothing about.

•   Default: production

  evaltrace
Whether each resource should log when it is being evaluated. This allows you to interactively see exactly what is being done.

•   Default: false

  external_nodes
An external command that can produce node information. The command's output must be a YAML dump of a hash, and that hash must have a classes key and/or a parameters key, where classes is an array or hash and parameters is a hash. For unknown nodes, the command should exit with a non-zero exit code. This command makes it straightforward to store your node mapping information in other data sources like databases.

•   Default: none

  factdest
Where Puppet should store facts that it pulls down from the central server.

•   Default: $vardir/facts/

  factpath
Where Puppet should look for facts. Multiple directories should be separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ':', and the Windows path separator is ';'.)

•   Default: $vardir/lib/facter:$vardir/facts

  facts_terminus
The node facts terminus.

•   Default: facter

  factsignore
What files to ignore when pulling down facts.

•   Default: .svn CVS

  factsource
From where to retrieve facts. The standard Puppet file type is used for retrieval, so anything that is a valid file source can be used here.

•   Default: puppet://$server/facts/

  factsync
Whether facts should be synced with the central server.

•   Default: false

  fileserverconfig
Where the fileserver configuration is stored.

•   Default: $confdir/fileserver.conf

  filetimeout
The minimum time to wait (in seconds) between checking for updates in configuration files. This timeout determines how quickly Puppet checks whether a file (such as manifests or templates) has changed on disk.

•   Default: 15

  freeze_main
Freezes the 'main' class, disallowing any code to be added to it. This essentially means that you can't have any code outside of a node, class, or definition other than in the site manifest.

•   Default: false

  genconfig
Whether to just print a configuration to stdout and exit. Only makes sense when used interactively. Takes into account arguments specified on the CLI.

•   Default: false

  genmanifest
Whether to just print a manifest to stdout and exit. Only makes sense when used interactively. Takes into account arguments specified on the CLI.

•   Default: false

  graph
Whether to create dot graph files for the different configuration graphs. These dot files can be interpreted by tools like OmniGraffle or dot (which is part of ImageMagick).

•   Default: false

  graphdir
Where to store dot-outputted graphs.

•   Default: $statedir/graphs

  group
The group puppet master should run as.

•   Default: puppet

  hostcert
Where individual hosts store and look for their certificates.

•   Default: $certdir/$certname.pem

  hostcrl
Where the host's certificate revocation list can be found. This is distinct from the certificate authority's CRL.

•   Default: $ssldir/crl.pem

  hostcsr
Where individual hosts store and look for their certificate requests.

•   Default: $ssldir/csr_$certname.pem

  hostprivkey
Where individual hosts store and look for their private key.

•   Default: $privatekeydir/$certname.pem

  hostpubkey
Where individual hosts store and look for their public key.

•   Default: $publickeydir/$certname.pem

  http_compression
Allow http compression in REST communication with the master. This setting might improve performance for agent -> master communications over slow WANs. Your puppet master needs to support compression (usually by activating some settings in a reverse-proxy in front of the puppet master, which rules out webrick). It is harmless to activate this settings if your master doesn't support compression, but if it supports it, this setting might reduce performance on high-speed LANs.

•   Default: false

  http_proxy_host
The HTTP proxy host to use for outgoing connections. Note: You may need to use a FQDN for the server hostname when using a proxy.

•   Default: none

  http_proxy_port
The HTTP proxy port to use for outgoing connections

•   Default: 3128

  httplog
Where the puppet agent web server logs.

•   Default: $logdir/http.log

  ignorecache
Ignore cache and always recompile the configuration. This is useful for testing new configurations, where the local cache may in fact be stale even if the timestamps are up to date - if the facts change or if the server changes.

•   Default: false

  ignoreimport
If true, allows the parser to continue without requiring all files referenced with import statements to exist. This setting was primarily designed for use with commit hooks for parse-checking.

•   Default: false

  ignoreschedules
Boolean; whether puppet agent should ignore schedules. This is useful for initial puppet agent runs.

•   Default: false

  inventory_port
The port to communicate with the inventory_server.

•   Default: $masterport

  inventory_server
The server to send facts to.

•   Default: $server

  inventory_terminus
Should usually be the same as the facts terminus

•   Default: $facts_terminus

  keylength
The bit length of keys.

•   Default: 4096

  lastrunfile
Where puppet agent stores the last run report summary in yaml format.

•   Default: $statedir/last_run_summary.yaml

  lastrunreport
Where puppet agent stores the last run report in yaml format.

•   Default: $statedir/last_run_report.yaml

  ldapattrs
The LDAP attributes to include when querying LDAP for nodes. All returned attributes are set as variables in the top-level scope. Multiple values should be comma-separated. The value 'all' returns all attributes.

•   Default: all

  ldapbase
The search base for LDAP searches. It's impossible to provide a meaningful default here, although the LDAP libraries might have one already set. Generally, it should be the 'ou=Hosts' branch under your main directory.

  ldapclassattrs
The LDAP attributes to use to define Puppet classes. Values should be comma-separated.

•   Default: puppetclass

  ldapnodes
Whether to search for node configurations in LDAP. See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/LDAP_Nodes for more information.

•   Default: false

  ldapparentattr
The attribute to use to define the parent node.

•   Default: parentnode

  ldappassword
The password to use to connect to LDAP.

  ldapport
The LDAP port. Only used if ldapnodes is enabled.

•   Default: 389

  ldapserver
The LDAP server. Only used if ldapnodes is enabled.

•   Default: ldap

  ldapssl
Whether SSL should be used when searching for nodes. Defaults to false because SSL usually requires certificates to be set up on the client side.

•   Default: false

  ldapstackedattrs
The LDAP attributes that should be stacked to arrays by adding the values in all hierarchy elements of the tree. Values should be comma-separated.

•   Default: puppetvar

  ldapstring
The search string used to find an LDAP node.

•   Default: (&(objectclass=puppetClient)(cn=%s))

  ldaptls
Whether TLS should be used when searching for nodes. Defaults to false because TLS usually requires certificates to be set up on the client side.

•   Default: false

  ldapuser
The user to use to connect to LDAP. Must be specified as a full DN.

  lexical
Whether to use lexical scoping (vs. dynamic).

•   Default: false

  libdir
An extra search path for Puppet. This is only useful for those files that Puppet will load on demand, and is only guaranteed to work for those cases. In fact, the autoload mechanism is responsible for making sure this directory is in Ruby's search path

•   Default: $vardir/lib

  listen
Whether puppet agent should listen for connections. If this is true, then puppet agent will accept incoming REST API requests, subject to the default ACLs and the ACLs set in the rest_authconfig file. Puppet agent can respond usefully to requests on the run, facts, certificate, and resource endpoints.

•   Default: false

  localcacert
Where each client stores the CA certificate.

•   Default: $certdir/ca.pem

  localconfig
Where puppet agent caches the local configuration. An extension indicating the cache format is added automatically.

•   Default: $statedir/localconfig

  logdir
The Puppet log directory.

•   Default: $vardir/log

  manage_internal_file_permissions
Whether Puppet should manage the owner, group, and mode of files it uses internally

•   Default: true

  manifest
The entry-point manifest for puppet master.

•   Default: $manifestdir/site.pp

  manifestdir
Where puppet master looks for its manifests.

•   Default: $confdir/manifests

  masterhttplog
Where the puppet master web server logs.

•   Default: $logdir/masterhttp.log

  masterlog
Where puppet master logs. This is generally not used, since syslog is the default log destination.

•   Default: $logdir/puppetmaster.log

  masterport
Which port puppet master listens on.

•   Default: 8140

  maximum_uid
The maximum allowed UID. Some platforms use negative UIDs but then ship with tools that do not know how to handle signed ints, so the UIDs show up as huge numbers that can then not be fed back into the system. This is a hackish way to fail in a slightly more useful way when that happens.

•   Default: 4294967290

  mkusers
Whether to create the necessary user and group that puppet agent will run as.

•   Default: false

  module_repository
The module repository

•   Default: http://forge.puppetlabs.com

  module_working_dir
The directory into which module tool data is stored

•   Default: $vardir/puppet-module

  modulepath
The search path for modules, as a list of directories separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ':', and the Windows path separator is ';'.)

•   Default: $confdir/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules

  name
The name of the application, if we are running as one. The default is essentially $0 without the path or .rb.

•   Default: doc

  node_name
How the puppet master determines the client's identity and sets the 'hostname', 'fqdn' and 'domain' facts for use in the manifest, in particular for determining which 'node' statement applies to the client. Possible values are 'cert' (use the subject's CN in the client's certificate) and 'facter' (use the hostname that the client reported in its facts)

•   Default: cert

  node_name_fact
The fact name used to determine the node name used for all requests the agent makes to the master. WARNING: This setting is mutually exclusive with node_name_value. Changing this setting also requires changes to the default auth.conf configuration on the Puppet Master. Please see http://links.puppetlabs.com/node_name_fact for more information.

  node_name_value
The explicit value used for the node name for all requests the agent makes to the master. WARNING: This setting is mutually exclusive with node_name_fact. Changing this setting also requires changes to the default auth.conf configuration on the Puppet Master. Please see http://links.puppetlabs.com/node_name_value for more information.

•   Default: $certname

  node_terminus
Where to find information about nodes.

•   Default: plain

  noop
Whether puppet agent should be run in noop mode.

•   Default: false

  onetime
Run the configuration once, rather than as a long-running daemon. This is useful for interactively running puppetd.

•   Default: false

  passfile
Where puppet agent stores the password for its private key. Generally unused.

•   Default: $privatedir/password

  path
The shell search path. Defaults to whatever is inherited from the parent process.

•   Default: none

  pidfile
The pid file

•   Default: $rundir/$name.pid

  plugindest
Where Puppet should store plugins that it pulls down from the central server.

•   Default: $libdir

  pluginsignore
What files to ignore when pulling down plugins.

•   Default: .svn CVS .git

  pluginsource
From where to retrieve plugins. The standard Puppet file type is used for retrieval, so anything that is a valid file source can be used here.

•   Default: puppet://$server/plugins

  pluginsync
Whether plugins should be synced with the central server.

•   Default: false

  postrun_command
A command to run after every agent run. If this command returns a non-zero return code, the entire Puppet run will be considered to have failed, even though it might have performed work during the normal run.

  preferred_serialization_format
The preferred means of serializing ruby instances for passing over the wire. This won't guarantee that all instances will be serialized using this method, since not all classes can be guaranteed to support this format, but it will be used for all classes that support it.

•   Default: pson

  prerun_command
A command to run before every agent run. If this command returns a non-zero return code, the entire Puppet run will fail.

  privatedir
Where the client stores private certificate information.

•   Default: $ssldir/private

  privatekeydir
The private key directory.

•   Default: $ssldir/private_keys

  publickeydir
The public key directory.

•   Default: $ssldir/public_keys

  puppetdlockfile
A lock file to temporarily stop puppet agent from doing anything.

•   Default: $statedir/puppetdlock

  puppetdlog
The log file for puppet agent. This is generally not used.

•   Default: $logdir/puppetd.log

  puppetport
Which port puppet agent listens on.

•   Default: 8139

  queue_source
Which type of queue to use for asynchronous processing. If your stomp server requires authentication, you can include it in the URI as long as your stomp client library is at least 1.1.1

•   Default: stomp://localhost:61613/

  queue_type
Which type of queue to use for asynchronous processing.

•   Default: stomp

  rails_loglevel
The log level for Rails connections. The value must be a valid log level within Rails. Production environments normally use info and other environments normally use debug.

•   Default: info

  railslog
Where Rails-specific logs are sent

•   Default: $logdir/rails.log

  report
Whether to send reports after every transaction.

•   Default: true

  report_port
The port to communicate with the report_server.

•   Default: $masterport

  report_server
The server to send transaction reports to.

•   Default: $server

  reportdir
The directory in which to store reports received from the client. Each client gets a separate subdirectory.

•   Default: $vardir/reports

  reportfrom
The 'from' email address for the reports.

•   Default: report@wyclef.puppetlabs.lan

  reports
The list of reports to generate. All reports are looked for in puppet/reports/name.rb, and multiple report names should be comma-separated (whitespace is okay).

•   Default: store

  reportserver
(Deprecated for 'report_server') The server to which to send transaction reports.

•   Default: $server

  reporturl
The URL used by the http reports processor to send reports

•   Default: http://localhost:3000/reports/upload

  req_bits
The bit length of the certificates.

•   Default: 4096

  requestdir
Where host certificate requests are stored.

•   Default: $ssldir/certificate_requests

  resourcefile
The file in which puppet agent stores a list of the resources associated with the retrieved configuration.

•   Default: $statedir/resources.txt

  rest_authconfig
The configuration file that defines the rights to the different rest indirections. This can be used as a fine-grained authorization system for puppet master.

•   Default: $confdir/auth.conf

  route_file
The YAML file containing indirector route configuration.

•   Default: $confdir/routes.yaml

  rrddir
The directory where RRD database files are stored. Directories for each reporting host will be created under this directory.

•   Default: $vardir/rrd

  rrdinterval
How often RRD should expect data. This should match how often the hosts report back to the server.

•   Default: $runinterval

  run_mode
The effective 'run mode' of the application: master, agent, or user.

•   Default: master

  rundir
Where Puppet PID files are kept.

•   Default: $vardir/run

  runinterval
How often puppet agent applies the client configuration; in seconds. Note that a runinterval of 0 means "run continuously" rather than "never run." If you want puppet agent to never run, you should start it with the --no-client option.

•   Default: 1800

  sendmail
Where to find the sendmail binary with which to send email.

•   Default: /usr/sbin/sendmail

  serial
Where the serial number for certificates is stored.

•   Default: $cadir/serial

  server
The server to which server puppet agent should connect

•   Default: puppet

  server_datadir
The directory in which serialized data is stored, usually in a subdirectory.

•   Default: $vardir/server_data

  servertype
The type of server to use. Currently supported options are webrick and mongrel. If you use mongrel, you will need a proxy in front of the process or processes, since Mongrel cannot speak SSL.

•   Default: webrick

  show_diff
Whether to log and report a contextual diff when files are being replaced. This causes partial file contents to pass through Puppet's normal logging and reporting system, so this setting should be used with caution if you are sending Puppet's reports to an insecure destination. This feature currently requires the diff/lcs Ruby library.

•   Default: false

  signeddir
Where the CA stores signed certificates.

•   Default: $cadir/signed

  smtpserver
The server through which to send email reports.

•   Default: none

  splay
Whether to sleep for a pseudo-random (but consistent) amount of time before a run.

•   Default: false

  splaylimit
The maximum time to delay before runs. Defaults to being the same as the run interval.

•   Default: $runinterval

  ssl_client_header
The header containing an authenticated client's SSL DN. Only used with Mongrel. This header must be set by the proxy to the authenticated client's SSL DN (e.g., /CN=puppet.puppetlabs.com). See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Using_Mongrel for more information.

•   Default: HTTP_X_CLIENT_DN

  ssl_client_verify_header
The header containing the status message of the client verification. Only used with Mongrel. This header must be set by the proxy to 'SUCCESS' if the client successfully authenticated, and anything else otherwise. See http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Using_Mongrel for more information.

•   Default: HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERIFY

  ssldir
Where SSL certificates are kept.

•   Default: $confdir/ssl

  statedir
The directory where Puppet state is stored. Generally, this directory can be removed without causing harm (although it might result in spurious service restarts).

•   Default: $vardir/state

  statefile
Where puppet agent and puppet master store state associated with the running configuration. In the case of puppet master, this file reflects the state discovered through interacting with clients.

•   Default: $statedir/state.yaml

  storeconfigs
Whether to store each client's configuration, including catalogs, facts, and related data. This also enables the import and export of resources in the Puppet language - a mechanism for exchange resources between nodes. By default this uses ActiveRecord and an SQL database to store and query the data; this, in turn, will depend on Rails being available. You can adjust the backend using the storeconfigs_backend setting.

•   Default: false

  storeconfigs_backend
Configure the backend terminus used for StoreConfigs. By default, this uses the ActiveRecord store, which directly talks to the database from within the Puppet Master process.

•   Default: active_record

  strict_hostname_checking
Whether to only search for the complete hostname as it is in the certificate when searching for node information in the catalogs.

•   Default: false

  summarize
Whether to print a transaction summary.

•   Default: false

  syslogfacility
What syslog facility to use when logging to syslog. Syslog has a fixed list of valid facilities, and you must choose one of those; you cannot just make one up.

•   Default: daemon

  tagmap
The mapping between reporting tags and email addresses.

•   Default: $confdir/tagmail.conf

  tags
Tags to use to find resources. If this is set, then only resources tagged with the specified tags will be applied. Values must be comma-separated.

  templatedir
Where Puppet looks for template files. Can be a list of colon-separated directories.

•   Default: $vardir/templates

  thin_storeconfigs
Boolean; wether storeconfigs store in the database only the facts and exported resources. If true, then storeconfigs performance will be higher and still allow exported/collected resources, but other usage external to Puppet might not work

•   Default: false

  trace
Whether to print stack traces on some errors

•   Default: false

  use_cached_catalog
Whether to only use the cached catalog rather than compiling a new catalog on every run. Puppet can be run with this enabled by default and then selectively disabled when a recompile is desired.

•   Default: false

  usecacheonfailure
Whether to use the cached configuration when the remote configuration will not compile. This option is useful for testing new configurations, where you want to fix the broken configuration rather than reverting to a known-good one.

•   Default: true

  user
The user puppet master should run as.

•   Default: puppet

  vardir
Where Puppet stores dynamic and growing data. The default for this setting is calculated specially, like confdir_.

•   Default: /var/lib/puppet

  yamldir
The directory in which YAML data is stored, usually in a subdirectory.

•   Default: $vardir/yaml

  zlib
Boolean; whether to use the zlib library

•   Default: true

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