[chef] Re: search doesn't work on the chef server

[Mike < >]

Have you tried "knife index rebuild" ? See
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Indexer

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Ran Tavory 
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 wrote:
> Hi, I installed chef server using the following cloud formation
> configuration
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/chef-server-ubuntu-configuration.template
> which I found linked to on the site
> http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/
>
> This mostly worked out of the box, except for the search functionality,
> which simply always returns zero results.
>
> Where should I dig to fixed it?
>
> Here's what I did:
> - tried searching for nodes, clients, rols, nothing brings up data (and I
> have from all these groups)
> - verified that the following processes are running:  chef-server,
> chef-server-webui, couchdb, rabbitmq, chef-solr, see
> https://gist.github.com/3945810
> - looked at solr at http://chef:8983/solr/admin/stats.jsp and the stats show
> that there are zero indexed documents.
>
> So I guess solr doesn't get the input. But now what? How do I debug this?
>
> thanks!