Running puppet cert list doesn't show certificate I'm looking for

Question

I'm on CentOS 6.4

On the first attempt of listing certificates from puppet master server, when I run puppet cert list it shows the certificate.

But after few days later it doesn't show the certificate.

Puppet services are running fine, what could be the issue?

Answer 1

According to specification about puppet cert list command:

List outstanding certificate requests. If '--all' is specified, signed certificates are also listed, prefixed by '+', and revoked or invalid certificates are prefixed by '-' (the verification outcome is printed in parenthesis).

So you see certificate at first, because it wasn't signed by master. After signing it will not be listed unless you call:

puppet cert list --all