[chef] Re: Re: Re: Nodes do not have permissions to bootstrap other nodes on ec2

[John Dyer < >]

Not anywhere that I can double check but I think that's saying there is a 
client registered already with that name.  Node names need to be unique.  Can 
u remove the client an try again?  Knife client delete nodeNAme .   Then try 
again

John

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On Jun 9, 2012, at 11:14 AM, David Montgomery 
<
 >
 wrote:

> This is what I get.
> 
> 
 :/home/ubuntu/.chef#
>  knife client show dev_gl
> admin:       false
> chef_type:   client
> json_class:  Chef::ApiClient
> name:        dev_gl
> public_key:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:03 PM, John Dyer 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> What's the node name of the instance you are bootstrapping?  Does that 
>> client ( node name) already exist on your chef server?
>> 
>> 'knife client show your.node.name'
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> Sent from Motorola StarTac
>> "Keeping it Klassy"
>> 
>> On Jun 9, 2012, at 10:30 AM, David Montgomery 
>> <
 >
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I  am very serious issue with chef an bootstrapping a node from a
>>> monitoring server.  The monitoring server was bootstrapped as well.
>>> In the hosted hosted web UI I have gave permissions to the monitoring
>>> node for everything yet I get the below error.  This node will handle
>>> failover.
>>> 
>>> I get the below error when bootstrapping.
>>> 
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com 15 gems installed
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:11+00:00]
>>> INFO: *** Chef 0.10.8 ***
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
>>> INFO: Client key /etc/chef/client.pem is not present - registering
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
>>> INFO: HTTP Request Returned 401 Unauthorized: Failed to authenticate
>>> as validation. Ensure that your node_name and client key are correct.
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
>>> FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
>>> ec2-23-20-69-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com [2012-06-09T14:21:12+00:00]
>>> FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 401 "Unauthorized"
>>> 
>>> Here is my knife file.
>>> 
>>> log_level                :info
>>> log_location             STDOUT
>>> node_name                "dev_gl"
>>> client_key               "/etc/chef/client.pem"
>>> validation_client_name   "validation"
>>> validation_key           "/etc/chef/validation.pem"
>>> chef_server_url          "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/testorg";
>>> cache_type               'BasicFile'
>>> cache_options( :path => "/home/ubuntu/.chef/checksums" )
>>> cookbook_path       [ "/home/ubuntu/workspace/MyCHEF/chef-repo/cookbooks" 
>>> ]
>>> knife[:aws_access_key_id]     = "xxxxxx"
>>> knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
>>> 
>>> The node has ALL permissions checked.  What else is there to do?
>>> 
>>> Thanks