Error trying to setup foreman-proxy with central foreman master

[jjack]

Your issues seem related to your previous posting:

Multi proxy setup for puppet over different networks

Hi and welcome to the forum Foreman Smart-Proxies are designed for the use-case you are describing, but they do not work like a classical proxy. The architecture with smart-proxy is essentially the following: You have your Foreman Server as a central management instance, where you assign things like Puppet environment, classes and parameters to send via Puppet ENC, etc. On each separated subnet you deploy a smart-proxy server. For Puppet functionality, this server acts as a st…

where you are thinking that the “Foreman Smart-Proxy for Puppet” is a proxy for Puppet clients which then speaks to a Puppet Master.

I see you have a puppet client pointing at a Foreman Proxy as if the Foreman Proxy machine is running a puppetserver process and is acting as a Puppet Master.

[root@puppetclient ~]# egrep -v “^$|^#” /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf
server = foremanproxy.mydomain.com

Is your foremanproxy.mydomain.com running as a Puppet Master? I could be wrong but in my experience the Foreman Proxy for Puppet is a proxy for the Puppet Master to speak with the Foreman instance so that Foreman can know the Puppet Environments & Puppet Classes that the Puppet Master knows.

And I think @areyus answered this in:

@areyus

• On each separated subnet you deploy a smart-proxy server. For Puppet functionality, this server acts as a standalone puppet-master. It communicates with the central Foreman for ENC information, but is otherwise it’s own, standalone Puppetserver.
• Some Foreman Smart-Proxy features act differently, more in the way you would assume by the name of “proxy” (essentially routing the requests through to Foreman), but for Puppet that is not the case.