Enable data editing in the console

In new Puppet Enterprise (PE) installations, you can, by default, edit configuration data in the console. If you upgraded from an earlier PE version where you hadn't already enabled editing of configuration data, you must use Hiera to manually enable Classifier Configuration Data.

1. On your primary server, open the hiera.yaml file located at: /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml.
2. Add the following to the hiera.yaml file:

   hierarchy: 
   - name: "Classifier Configuration Data"
     data_hash: classifier_data

   Place additional hierarchy entries, such as hiera-yaml or hiera-eyaml under the same hierarchy key, below the Classifier Configuration Data entry.

3. To allow users to edit the configuration data in the console, add the Set environment and Edit configuration data permissions to any user groups that need to set environment parameters or modify class parameters.
4. If your environment is configured for disaster recovery or has compilers, update hiera.yaml on your replica and compilers, respectively.