[chef] Re: Change hostname and IP address on Chef server

[Steffen Gebert < >]

> Arthur was actually very close, the last remaining hurdle was to 
> reconfigure RabbitMQ with the right username, password and vhost.

Okay, thanks! So I will give it a try

Steffen

On 02.01.2012, at 19:37, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

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> On Monday, January 2, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
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>>> It turned out to be faster to just set up the chef server again. Would
>>> be nice if there was an easy way to change the hostname....
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>> Ouch, I have to do the change the DNS name of our server within the next 
>> few days, too :-(
>> 
>> We're running just a hand full of clients at the moment, so manually 
>> changing the address on client side would be no problem. But when I can be 
>> sure that the server itself will not start anymore, I'm not sure, how to 
>> proceed.
>> 
>> Is there an "official" recommendation? Is there an easy way to dump all 
>> data and restore it after new installation?
> Arthur was actually very close, the last remaining hurdle was to 
> reconfigure RabbitMQ with the right username, password and vhost. The 
> chef-server cookbook shows how to do this: 
> https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/blob/master/chef-server/recipes/rabbitmq.rb#L56-69
> 
> The RabbitMQ docs explain that this happens because the config database is 
> stored in a directory named after the system's hostname[1]; I'm not sure 
> why RabbitMQ works this way.
> 
> -- 
> Dan DeLeo
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> 1. http://www.rabbitmq.com/ec2.html#issues-hostname
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