[chef] Re: knife ssh can not run command

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, October 7, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Manoj Thakkar wrote:

Hi All,

I ma runnif this command below and the error is also there, 

FATAL: 1 node found, but does not have the required attribute to establish the connection. Try setting another attribute to open the connection using --attribute.

The -a or --attribute looks into your node data for a hostname or IP address to use. You use a dot character for each level of attributes you want to descend. For example, if you have a node where you could get its IP in a recipe like this:

node["rackspace"]["public_ipv4"]

Then you pick that attribute like this for knife ssh:

knife ssh QUERY OTHER_ARGS -a rackspace.public_ipv4

`knife search` has a `-a` flag that works exactly the same, so you can do something like:

`knife search '*:*' -a cloud.public_ipv4` (or with other attributes) to see what your nodes look like.

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Daniel DeLeo