The puppet-device subcommand retrieves catalogs from the Puppet master and applies them to remote devices. Devices to be managed by the puppet-device subcommand are configured in device.conf.
For more information on Puppet device, see the Puppet device documentation.
Location
The device.conf file is located at $confdir/device.conf by default, and its location is configurable with the deviceconfig setting.
The location of confdir depends on your operating system. See the confdir documentation for details.
Format
device.conf file is an INI-like file, with one section per device:[device001.example.com]
type cisco
url ssh://admin:[email protected]
debugThe section name specifies the certname of the device.
The values for the type and url properties are specific to each type of device.
The the optional debug property specifies transport-level debugging, and is limited to telnet and ssh transports.
url is in the following format:scheme://user:[email protected]/queryWith:
Scheme: either
sshortelnetuser: optional connection username, depending on the device configuration
password: connection password
query: optional
?enable=parameter whose value is the enable password
url must be percent-encoded.