[chef] Re: chef client errors after successful execution

[Seth Falcon < >]

Hi there,


 
 writes:
> I am running chef client on couple nodes , on all nodes the recipe is
> executed fine , but i get this error in last,
>
> [2013-09-15T11:34:23-07:00] FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 413 "Request
> Entity Too Large"

The 413 error is returned by Chef Server (as well as Hosted Enterprise
Chef) when the JSON data sent in the request exceeds 1MM bytes.

So to take a guess, one of your nodes is quite large and the server is
rejecting the large node at the end of the run when chef-client attempts
to save the node.

+ seth




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