[chef-dev] RE: Opscode Chef installing Eclipse with Plugins on Windows 2012

[Adam Edwards < >]

So this most likely has to do with winrm limiting the process (via token
restrictions and job objects) that you start from consuming certain
amounts of memory, etc. Usually you can work around this by setting
MaxMemoryPerShellMb to something big. The default is 150MB, and I've seen
lots of applications such as sqlserver setup executed through winrm fail
in unpredictable ways similar to what you're seeing.

You can use a powershell command like that below on the remote machine
(the one where you are running chef-client) to set this:

si WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 8192 # set to 8G, better
than 150mb :)

You can see the current setting using

gi WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB

If the settting is below 1G, I would recommend increasing it to see if you
can get it to work. You could also watch memory utilizaing via taskmgr or
other tools while your command runs to validate that memory utilization is
going beyond the typical maxmemorypershellmb setting.

If this doesn't solve it, it's possible we're facing an issue with the
token, which is trickier to debug.

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Liedike, Michael (US - Philadelphia) 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 9:11 AM
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Subject: RE: [chef-dev] Opscode Chef installing Eclipse with Plugins on
Windows 2012

Hi,

Yes I am using knife winrm to use chef remotely.   I created a local
administrator and put the user into the local admin group too.

From chef workstation I run the following command:
knife winrm "<Server_IP>" "chef-client -o
recipe[eclipse_windows::maven_plugin]" -m -x Administrator -P "<password>"

This results in a hung process and eventually times out.

Mike Liedike
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Edwards 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 9:01 AM
To: Liedike, Michael (US - Philadelphia); 

 
Subject: RE: [chef-dev] Opscode Chef installing Eclipse with Plugins on
Windows 2012

How are you using Chef "remotely" -- you're using knife ssh / knife winrm
to run chef-client?

-Adam

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Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:52 AM
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Subject: [chef-dev] Opscode Chef installing Eclipse with Plugins on
Windows 2012

Hello,

I am install Eclipse on a Windows 2012 using Chef remotely.  I am able to
accomplish this with no issue.  The problem I am running into is
installing plugins.

It seems that I need the "windows_batch" to run as administrator.  I am
using the knife-windows plugin.  The recipe I am using is below:

windows_batch "install_maven" do
code <<-EOH
C:\\eclipse\\eclipsec.exe -nosplash -application
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/,http://repository.sonatype.or
g/content/sites/forge-sites/m2e/0.12.0/S/0.12.0.20101102-1505/
-installIU org.maven.ide.eclipse.feature.feature.group
EOH
end

The issue I see is it just hangs when it reaches this recipe remotely.

The recipe works when I run chef-client locally from a powershell prompt
ran as administrator and I change "windows_batch" to "batch".  How can I
make this work when I run this remotely?

Please let me know if you need more details.

Thank you for the help!
Mike