Puppet with Foreman - PuppetDB Reporting Errors

Fixing Missing OS, Environment, and Fact Data in Foreman When Using PuppetDB Recently, I re-introduced PuppetDB into my infrastructure to support the new confdroid_nagios module. Everything worked as expected on the Puppet side — PuppetDB stored facts, catalogs, and reports correctly. However, when I checked Foreman, something looked wrong. All hosts showed empty fields for basic information such as Operating System , Environment , and many other facts. The core Puppet functionality was fine, but Foreman’s host overview and reporting appeared broken. After some investigation, I found a simple but important configuration mismatch. The Root Cause When Foreman is used as an External Node Classifier (ENC), Puppet needs a specific routing configuration to properly handle facts. This is defined in the file: /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/routes.yaml An older default configuration (still present in some Foreman installations) looked like this: master : facts : terminus : puppetdb cache : yaml This se