[chef] Windows chef clients not registering with server

[Madhurranjan Mohaan < >]

Hello experts,

I have been able to configure "knife " but I am unable to register a couple of windows boxes that I am playing with in chef. I am running chef 0.10.4. The chef-installer has been installed in c:\opscode\chef. 

Home directory where chef-client is running 

C:\Documents and Settings\user.ABC\chef-repo\ 

client.rb on both boxes is configured as - 

log_level        :info

log_location     STDOUT

chef_server_url  'http://chef.internal.com:4000'

validation_client_name 'chef-validator'

validation_key         'C:\Documents and Settings\user.ABC\chef-repo\validation.pem'

The error on the 1st box ( The first box also runs knife from %HOMEPATH%/chef-repo/.chef) when I run chef-client -c client.rb -K validation.pem or chef-client -c client.rb

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:24:06 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.4 ***

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:24:21 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:24:21 +0000] WARN: Failed to read the private key validation.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - validation.pem>

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:24:21 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to C:/var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:24:21 +0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::PrivateKeyMissing: I cannot read validation.pem, which you told me to use to sign requests!

On the 2nd box:

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:40:37 +0000] INFO: *** Chef 0.10.4 ***

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:40:51 +0000] INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:40:53 +0000] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to C:/var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out

[Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:40:53 +0000] FATAL: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /etc/chef/client.pem

"knife client list" shows me that both these agents have been registered as clients but they don't register themselves as nodes. 

Logs show:

INFO: Authenticating client chef-validator

INFO: Creating new key pair for node1.internal.com

INFO: Sending client(4ecf64a7-4ef9-4b8f-abb0-2e08fbe94a63) to the index queue for addition.

~ Qrack::Queue#publish will be removed in Bunny 0.8. Use direct_exchange = bunny.exchange(''); direct_exchange.publish('message', key: queue.name) if you want to publish directly to one given queue. For more informations see https://github.com/ruby-amqp/bunny/issues/15 and for more theoretical explanation check http://bit.ly/nOF1CK

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Started request handling: Sun Nov 27 18:40:52 +0000 2011

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ Params: {"name"=>"node1.internal.com", "action"=>"create", "admin"=>false, "controller"=>"clients"}

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~ {:before_filters_time=>0.014587, :dispatch_time=>0.457, :action_time=>0.455808, :after_filters_time=>2.2e-05}

merb : chef-server (api) : worker (port 4000) ~

Can you please point out what I am missing here ?

thanks

Ranjan