[chef] Re: Find Attributes in the 'Expanded' Attributes

[Adam Jacob < >]

Nope - it's intended to work that way. Seaching for those attributes on a 
node will only find them when they have been successfully applied to the node 
- if they don't exist, it hasn't happened yet.

Adam

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On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:18 AM, 
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> Hi, I have a cookbook that uses search within its recipes in order to 
> describe
> a cluster. I am using a specific attribute (clusterID) to define the 
> grouping
> (and their recipes as their specific units master/slave...). Adding this
> attribute to the node directly works fine and search finds it easily. 
> 
> My problem is that if you were to use an environment or role and define the
> clusterID (makes sense if you were to assign this to many nodes), search 
> will
> pick up the attribute only after the node has run chef-client.
> 
> I have even tried running the 'knife index rebuild' command and I still get
> nothing. Is there anyway to fix this?