[chef] Re: Knife ssh fails with Server returned error

[Matt Ray < >]

This is a common misconception about how knife ssh works. The "-a"
option is asking for the attribute to pull from the nodes returned
from the search result, not the IP address you want to use. So if
"name:chef-node.blr.novell.com" matches 1 machine, you'll want to pass
"-a ipaddress" to pull the node's ipaddress and pass it to the ssh
command. I believe the options also go after the command, so try this:

knife ssh name:chef-node.blr.novell.com "sudo chef-client" -x root -P
pass -a ipaddress

If you're running in the cloud, you might use

knife ssh name:chef-node.blr.novell.com "sudo chef-client" -x root -P
pass  -a cloud.public_hostname

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist | Opscode Inc.

 
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:50 AM, meenakshi agrawal 
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 wrote:
>  knife ssh name:chef-node.blr.novell.com -x root -P pass "sudo chef-client"
> -a 172.18.4.19