[chef] Re: how come i have an extra client showing up?

[Jesse Nelson < >]

Clients are chef clients. Nodes also have a client. In this case i
imagine you ran chef-client on your server named server1.  This
section of the wiki explains the what and why:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Authentication+and+Authorization#AuthenticationandAuthorization-InitialChefclientrun

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, John Wong 
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 wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I followed the tutorial very closely:
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+on+Debian+or+Ubuntu+using+Packages
>
> My server's username is serveradmin. I did knife client list before I setup
> a knife client on my personal laptop:
> chef-validator
> chef-webui
> serveradmin
>
> I created a knife client called laptop and when I finished, I got this
> chef-validator
> chef-webui
> serveradmin
> server1
> laptop
>
> where server1 is the name of the chef server. I wonder why I have server1
> show up in the client list?
> The only node present is server1, that's okay. I guess.
>
> I am confused between server1 and serveradmin in the client list. What
> exactly do they mean? server1 is the hostname and the name of the server,
> and serveradmin is the client name (also the username).
> Weird. Confusing to me.
>
> Thanks.
>
>