Puppet Enterprise: could not find terminus console for indirection node - puppet

Question

New to Puppet Enterprise and I've run into an issue compiling the catalog for a simple agent node. The master is running on an rhel6 box, and the agent is running on a centos6.5 box launched via vagrant from the master. The issue occurs when I run the following from the agent VM:
bash-4.1$ sudo puppet agent --waitforcert 60 --test --certname agent.example.com
Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: Error 400 on SERVER: **Could not find terminus console for indirection node**
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/maven_version.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/root_home.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/jenkins.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/pe_version.rb
Info: Loading facts in /var/opt/puppet/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rb
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed when searching for node agent.example.com: **Could not find terminus console for indirection node**
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
The 'puppet.conf' file for the Puppet Master (3.4.3 - Puppet Enterprise 3.2.3) is as follows:
[main]
vardir = /var/opt/lib/pe-puppet
logdir = /var/log/pe-puppet
rundir = /var/run/pe-puppet
ssldir = /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl
user = pe-puppet
group = pe-puppet
[master]
certname = puppetmaster.example.com
reports = puppetdb
node_terminus = plain
ssl_client_header = SSL_CLIENT_S_DN
ssl_client_verify_header = SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY
storeconfigs_backend = puppetdb
storeconfigs = true
The 'puppet.conf' for the Puppet Agent (version 3.3.1) is as follows:
[main]
vardir = /var/opt/puppet
logdir = /var/log/puppet
rundir = /var/run/puppet
archive_files = true
archive_file_server = puppet
ssldir = $vardir/ssl
[agent]
classfile = $vardir/classes.txt
localconfig = $vardir/localconfig
server = puppetmaster.example.com
certname = agent.example.com
environment = production
The certificates seem in order. From the puppet master:
[mark#puppetmaster puppetlabs]$ sudo puppet cert list agent.example.com
+ "agent.example.com" (SHA256) blah
Finally, the 'site.pp' is trival:
node default {
# This is where you can declare classes for all nodes.
# Example:
# class { 'my_class': }
}
# The agentnode placeholder
node 'agent.example.com' {
# tba
}
From reading up on the the catalog compilation steps I would have thought that since I set the terminus to 'plain' the puppet master would simply retrieve the node object from the site.pp manifest, however it seems to be looking for the console node terminus...
Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm currently beating my head against the wall with a similar problem. While I haven't found the solution to my particular version of this issue, I've found some good pointers in my research that have worked for others.
Make sure you're running the correct version of Ruby (ie: 1.8.x not 1.9+)
EDIT: Apparently this bug has been fixed. Ruby versions up to 2.1 are generally supported.
Make sure the puppetdb-terminus package is installed on your Puppet Master
Is the markup in routes.yaml (if you have that file) correct?

Answer 2

I had a similar problem trying to get use environments.
Commenting the node_terminus config will default to site.pp which is what you want right?