These are not new nodes but not old either, only a few months. The 
date/time is correct. The DNS is correct. I have not manually set 
certificate lifetimes to be shorter than the default. However sometimes 
these nodes might not check in for a few days.

This was recently a big problem as the cert for the puppetdb server was 
revoked.

How can I get more information about the revocation?


On Monday, March 17, 2014 2:37:00 PM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday, March 17, 2014 1:26:03 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've been having issues with certificates being revoked without any human 
>> intervention or oversight; one day a node will try to do an update and it 
>> can't because its certificate is revoked.
>>
>> There is definitely no one issuing 'puppet cert clean nodename' on the 
>> commandline.
>>
>> puppet --version
>> 3.4.3
>>
>> any ideas? Is there some automated process that 'cleans' and revokes 
>> nodes that are 'too old'?
>>
>> I'd like to have control over this and have absolutely no automated 
>> system revoking certificates at all.
>>
>>
>
> Puppet does not auto-revoke client certificates, but certificates do have 
> a fixed lifetime, set when they are generated.  I don't recall Puppet's 
> default, but lifetimes are usually at least several years.   If your 
> lifetimes are abnormally short, or if some of your agents have been in 
> operation a long time, though, then that may be what's happening.  You 
> cannot disable this aspect of cryptographic certificates, but you can 
> choose very long lifetimes.
>
>
> John
>
>

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