NAME

       puppet-device - Manage remote network devices

SYNOPSIS

       Retrieves catalogs from the Puppet master and applies them to remote devices.

       This subcommand can be run manually; or periodically using cron, a scheduled task, or a similar tool.

USAGE

       puppet   device  [-d|--debug]  [--detailed-exitcodes]  [--deviceconfig  file]  [-h|--help]  [-l|--logdest
       syslog|file|console]  [-v|--verbose]  [-w|--waitforcert  seconds]  [-t|--target   device]   [--user=user]
       [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Devices require a proxy Puppet agent to request certificates, collect facts, retrieve and apply catalogs,
       and store reports.

USAGE NOTES

       Devices managed by the puppet-device subcommand on a Puppet agent are configured in device.conf, which is
       located at $confdir/device.conf by default, and is configurable with the $deviceconfig setting.

       The device.conf file is an INI-like file, with one section per device:

       [DEVICE_CERTNAME] type TYPE url URL debug

       The section name specifies the certname of the device.

       The values for the type and url properties are specific to each type of device.

       The  optional  debug  property  specifies  transport-level  debugging,  and  is limited to telnet and ssh
       transports.

       See https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/config_file_device.html for details.

OPTIONS

       Note that any setting that´s valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument. For  example,
       ´server´ is a valid configuration parameter, so you can specify ´--server servername´ as an argument.

       --debug
              Enable full debugging.

       --detailed-exitcodes
              Provide  transaction  information via exit codes. If this is enabled, an exit code of ´1´ means at
              least one device had a compile failure, an exit code of ´2´ means at least one device had resource
              changes, and an exit code of ´4´ means at least one device had resource failures.  Exit  codes  of
              ´3´, ´5´, ´6´, or ´7´ means that a bitwise combination of the preceding exit codes happened.

       --deviceconfig
              Path to the device config file for puppet device. Default: $confdir/device.conf

       --help Print this help message

       --logdest
              Where  to send log messages. Choose between ´syslog´ (the POSIX syslog service), ´console´, or the
              path to a log file. If debugging or verbosity is enabled, this defaults to  ´console´.  Otherwise,
              it defaults to ´syslog´.

              A  path  ending  with ´.json´ will receive structured output in JSON format. The log file will not
              have an ending ´]´ automatically written to it due to the appending nature of logging. It must  be
              appended manually to make the content valid JSON.

       --target
              Target  a  specific  device/certificate  in  the  device.conf.  Doing so will perform a device run
              against only that device/certificate.

       --user The user to run as.

       --verbose
              Turn on verbose reporting.

       --waitforcert
              This option only matters for daemons that do not yet  have  certificates  and  it  is  enabled  by
              default,  with a value of 120 (seconds). This causes +puppet agent+ to connect to the server every
              2 minutes and ask it to sign a certificate request. This is useful for  the  initial  setup  of  a
              puppet client. You can turn off waiting for certificates by specifying a time of 0.

EXAMPLE

         $ puppet device --server puppet.domain.com

AUTHOR

       Brice Figureau

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Inc., LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License

Puppet Labs, LLC                                   April 2018                                   PUPPET-DEVICE(8)