[chef] Re: Re: Re: chef client errors after successful execution

[Jeff Blaine < >]

Manoj, run ohai itself and see what is generating so much data. If I had
to take a wild guess, I suspect the Ohai passwd plugin is enumerating
hundreds or thousands of users in your environment.
If so, consider the possibility of disabling the Ohai passwd plugin:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ohai+disable+passwd+plugin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

On 9/16/2013 12:35 AM, Manoj Thakkar wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> i noted that and changed the nginx.conf in /opt/chef-server/embedded/conf 
> 
> http {
>     include       mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
> 
>     #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
> "$request" '
>     #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>     #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
>   *  client_max_body_size 100M;*
> *
> *
> 
> i thought that will fix the issues, is there something wrong.
> 
> Thanks
> Manoj
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Seth Falcon 
> <
 
> <mailto:
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>  wrote:
> 
>     Hi there,
> 
>     
> 
 
>  
> <mailto:
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>  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
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Seth Falcon | Development Lead | Opscode | @sfalcon
> 
>