A puppet manifest to disable the pe-puppet daemon and instead enable a cron job to run puppet with a random starting time. This will help avoid a thundering herd problem.

puppet_cron

$first_run = fqdn_rand(30)
$second_run = fqdn_rand(30) + 30

cron { 'cron.puppet':
   command => "/opt/puppet/bin/puppet agent -t > /dev/null",
   user => "root",
   minute => [ $first_run, $second_run ],
}

# make sure we haven't started the pe-puppet daemon ever
# this might break a report on an agent that triggers this via a daemonized run.
service { 'pe-puppet':
  enable => false,
  ensure => stopped,
  require => Cron['cron.puppet'],
}