diff --git a/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/files/modules/monitoring/commandtransports.ini b/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/files/modules/monitoring/commandtransports.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0844ac3d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/files/modules/monitoring/commandtransports.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[local]
+transport   = local
+path        = /var/run/icinga2/cmd/icinga2.cmd
diff --git a/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/manifests/init.pp b/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/manifests/init.pp
index 773c62d2f..2a86a4af7 100644
--- a/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/.puppet/profiles/icingaweb2_dev/manifests/init.pp
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class icingaweb2_dev (
     replace => false,
   }
 
-  icingaweb2::config::module { [ 'backends', 'config', 'instances' ]:
+  icingaweb2::config::module { [ 'backends', 'commandtransports', 'config', 'instances' ]:
     module  => 'monitoring',
     source  => 'puppet:///modules/icingaweb2_dev',
   }