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\sandisk>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.