[chef] Re: how to manage nodes without chef-client?

[Bryan McLellan < >]

2010/12/27 Grzegorz Marszałek 
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> I'm new to chef, but I've noticed, that there is possibility (and it's 
> mentioned on wiki) to give chef client diffirent node name.

You can. It is theoretically possible to use a chef node to represent
another node. I don't of anyone doing it though.

> What I'm trying to accomplish is to add to system nodes that are unable to 
> run chef-client - list switches, or access points.

That's awesome.

The easiest way would be to use "knife node create" which will give
you the basic JSON structure for a node and commit it. If you've got
more than a few nodes, I think writing a snmp discovery tool that
collects data and then talks to the API directly would be great.

Bryan