I actually have figured this out (with some help from the list.) Seems I was encountering a PEBKAC error. :-)
I hadn't set up puppet to use dashboard for external node classification. (so that's what it's useful for! hmmm...) > -- Peter L. Berghold Owner, Shark River Technical Solutions LLC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.