[chef] Re: Re: Adding windows nodes to Active Directory Domain using Chef

[Carlos Camacho < >]

Thanks!

I managed by doing exactly that, but using the -N parameter when chef
its being bootstrapped!

Cheers


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Maxime Brugidou
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 wrote:
> We do the same and we keep the node name different from the hostname/fqdn.
> You simply need to set the node_name config option in the client.rb. this
> can be done with the chef-client cookbook.
>
> On Jul 18, 2014 8:20 AM, "Carlos Camacho" 
> <
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> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!!
>>
>> I have this simple recipe to add my Windows nodes to my domain:
>>
>>
>> join_domain.rb
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> join_command = "netdom join "+Chef::Config[:node_name]+"
>> /domain:test.local /userd:usertest /passwordd:.asdfasdf.! /reboot:5"
>>
>>
>> batch 'join_domain' do
>>   code join_command
>>   action :run
>> end
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Now, when nodes restarts, the FQDN of the nodes will change to
>> nodename.test.local and the chef client fails as the FQDN has changed
>> from nodename to nodename.test.local
>>
>>
>> Is there a nice way to handle this behavior?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!!!