diff --git a/roles/copr/base/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/base/tasks/main.yml
index 0e76c96747..6f179d0de3 100644
--- a/roles/copr/base/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/base/tasks/main.yml
@@ -81,8 +81,10 @@
   tags:
   - packages
 
-- name: restart node exporter
+- name: start node exporter
   service: state=started enabled=yes name=node_exporter
+  when:
+    - "'pulp' not in inventory_hostname"
 
 - name: check offloading
   shell: "ethtool -k eth0 | egrep -q 'tcp-segmentation-offload: on|generic-receive-offload: on|generic-segmentation-offload: on'"