[chef] Re: nodes not showing up in `knife status`

[Peter Donald < >]

Hi,

Are the nodes that are missing either windows nodes or nodes that generate lots of data from ohai? If so it is probably that the data is not being indexed correctly. Chef silently fails to index large nodes - you can fix this by increasing the "maxFieldLength" value. Watch out if you are doing this under ubuntu as it seems to have two copies of this file installed.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Spike Grobstein < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Chefs,

I've recently added some new nodes to our chef-server, but when I run `knife status`, I don't see these nodes in the list.

`knife node edit $NODE` works
`knife client edit $NODE` works

the nodes show up in the webui.

the name in /etc/chef/client.rb is correct on the nodes.

Is there anything else I should look at?

75 total nodes show up when I run `knife status`. We're missing about 6 nodes from the list that I can see so far. I have a full range of last-run-at times; from minutes to over 6000 hours (some nodes I haven't upgraded the client on for quite a while), so I don't think it's just truncating the list.

Thanks in advance!


...spike

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Cheers,

Peter Donald