[chef] Re: Ohai not selecting IP address

[Matt Ray < >]

I've been dealing with similar issues lately, bootstrapping
multi-NIC'd machines and trying to restrict them to a single
interface. Node.ipaddress is used all over the place (which is blowing
up for you), so you'll want to look for those in your code. I added a
library to the apt cookbook to get the IP for an interface, you may be
able to reuse it:
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apt/blob/master/libraries/network.rb


Thanks,
Matt Ray
Cloud Integrations Product Lead :: Opscode
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On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Ted Fines 
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 wrote:
> On a bare metal system we have two network interfaces bonded.  They’re also
> trunked, with a native VLAN coming through untagged, along with another
> VLAN.
>
>
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> The interfaces are: bond0, bond0:0 and bond0.400.  bond0 has no IP address;
> bond0:0 has the IP address of the native VLAN, and is the ‘system’ IP;
> bond0.400 is the NFS interface.
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>
>
> The hostname of the system is its FQDN.  It is in /etc/hosts, and both
> forward and reverse DNS work correctly.
>
>
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> When registering the node with chef server, Ohai incorrectly decides that
> bond0.400 is the system IP.  I tried fooling it by temporarily turning off
> bond0.400 and re-registering, but then Ohai can’t figure out what the IP is.
>
>
>
> Googling indicates this is not an unheard of problem.  Here’s the relevant
> ohai output.
>
>
>
>       "bond0:0": {
>
>         "addresses": {
>
>           "10.46.144.11": {
>
>             "scope": "Global",
>
>             "broadcast": "10.46.144.255",
>
>             "prefixlen": "24",
>
>             "family": "inet",
>
>             "netmask": "255.255.255.0"
>
>           }
>
>         }
>
>       },
>
> …
>
>   "ipaddress": null,
>
>
>
> While I realize this is a more complicated configuration that many systems,
> it is not uncommon in servers, and not done in a non-standard way.  I
> realize it is tricky to figure out what ‘the’ IP is for a system when a
> system has more than one.  But ohai is just failing here.
>
>
>
> While I’m at it, does it matter that Chef server doesn’t have the ‘IP’ field
> for the node?  What might that break or affect?
>
>
>
> Any help?