Puppet/Issues

purely alphanumeric

puppet agent --test 
Error: Could not request certificate: Error 400 on SERVER: The 
environment must be purely alphanumeric, not 'puppet-ca' 
Exiting; failed to retrieve certificate and waitforcert is disabled 

Solution: Need to use a client equal to or older than server.

did not properly respond after a period of time

C:\Users\kenneth>puppet agent -t
Error: Could not request certificate: A connection attempt failed because the connected
party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed
because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2)
Exiting; failed to retrieve certificate and waitforcert is disabled

Most common answer is a firewall issue. My firewall was turned off though.

Turned out I needed to run the command in an Elevated Administrator window.