Disable Puppet agent runinterval

I am using the following Puppet version on CentOS Linux release 7.2:

# puppetserver -v
puppetserver version: 2016.5.0.11

I have a Win agent node and i might have few more later. Agent version on Win node:

C:\Windows\system32>puppet --version
4.8.1

I would like to disable the agent runinterval permanently so i can only push from my Puppet server when required. I saw few links and tried putting the following line in Puppet server's /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf file. I also restarted the server but still the agent is fetching the catalog.

[agent]
daemonize=false

I would also like to know whether it's possible to disable runinterval only on specific nodes. If yes, how?

Solution

What you are basically looking at doing is stopping the Puppet service. This is accomplished most easily with a puppet service resource:

service { 'puppet':
  ensure => stopped,
  enable => false,
}

To do this only on certain nodes, merely supply it for the corresponding node definitions in your classifier or main site manifest:

node /ones_to_disable/ {
  service { 'puppet':
    ensure => stopped,
    enable => false,
  }
}

This is the easy and common method for accomplishing push-style Puppet and disabling pull-style.