[chef] Re: Ohai custom plugin results not reported back to Chef server

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Reto Hermann wrote:

> I am experimenting with chef-client version 11.10.0.rc.1 on AIX 6.1.  
>  
> I have written an Ohai 7 plugin and therefore upgraded Ohai on the AIX box 
> to version 7.0.4 (using gem install ohai). When running ohai from the 
> command line, the plugin works fine as expected.  
>  
> I have added the ohai cookbook to the run_list of the AIX client node. 
> Executing a chef-client run from the command line does not produce any 
> warning nor error messages. However, the attributes collected by my custom 
> plugin do not show up in the node view on the Chef server webui nor are 
> they searchable from the command line using knife.  
>  
> Are Ohai custom plugins supported by chef-client version 11.10.0.rc.1?  
> Is the problem I am seeing possibly caused by using Ohai 7 with chef-client 
> version 11.10.0.rc.1?  
> Where should I look for evidence what's going wrong?  
>  
> Thanks for any advice!  
>  
> Reto  
Try running chef-client with `-ldebug` to see messages from ohai, and check 
if your plugin is actually running at all. It could be a configuration issue 
where your plugin is not getting picked up by ohai when chef-client runs, or 
it could be failing for some reason when chef-client runs the plugin 
(currently ohai’s design is to let plugins fail so that they don’t have to be 
defensively coded, but this makes it tricky to debug when a plugin that isn’t 
supposed to fail does fail).  

--  
Daniel DeLeo