[chef] Re: Re: Windows chef clients not registering with server

[Ranjib Dey < >]

its not able to read vaildation.pem, can you check if the validation cert is present or not, or try to place to somewhere else  and rerun chef,.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Madhurranjan Mohaan < "> > wrote:

Forgot to add - These are on Win2003 servers and  I have tried running chef client with the complete path as recommended in the documentation.

>chef-client -c "C:\Documents and Settings\user.ABC\chef-repo\client.rb"

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Madhurranjan Mohaan < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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