[chef] Re: Pleae help with windows bootstrap

[AJ Christensen < >]

mynode.domain.com does not resolve, thus knife cannot connect to the
machine that supposedly is behind that fqdn a record. maybe use an ip
address if an fqdn does not exist / is not resolvable.

cheers,

aj

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Fouts, Chris 
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 wrote:
> With the help of this group I was able to get this working when I had
> chef-client v11.x, and chef-server v11.x. I moved to chef-client v12.0 and
> Chef 12 Enterprise. Again, as before, I followed these instructions:
> https://docs.chef.io/plugin_knife_windows.html to set up winrm on the
> Windows box, which checks out.
>
>
>
> I do…
>
>
>
> knife bootstrap windows winrm 'mynode.domain.com' -x domain\\Administrator
> -P password -p 5985 -VV
>
> INFO: Using configuration from
> /opt/jenkins/workspace/Chef-Deploy-RNIs/chef-deploy-leeds/.chef/knife.rb
>
>
>
> Waiting for remote response before bootstrap
>
>
>
> ..DEBUG:
>
> Adding leed-dc.davis.sensus.lab
>
> DEBUG: :session => :init
>
> DEBUG: :relay_to_servers => echo . & echo Response received.
>
> DEBUG: :relayed => mynode.domain.com
>
> DEBUG: leed-dc.davis.sensus.lab => :run_command
>
>
>
> (above lines repeated 12 times)
>
>
>
> ERROR: No response received from remote node after 1.84 minutes, giving up.
>
> ERROR: Network Error: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
> (http://mynode.domain.com:5985)
>
> Check your knife configuration and network settings
>
>
>
> Here’s my knife.rb (secret values changed)
>
>
>
> current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
>
> log_level                :info
>
> log_location             STDOUT
>
> node_name                "jenkins"
>
> client_key               "#{current_dir}/jenkins.pem"
>
> validation_client_name   "chef-validator"
>
> validation_key           "#{current_dir}/chef-validator.pem"
>
> chef_server_url
> "https://mychefserver.domain.com/organizations/myorg";
>
> cache_type               'BasicFile'
>
> cache_options( :path => "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/checksums" )
>
> cookbook_path            ["#{current_dir}/../chef-repo/cookbooks"]
>
> knife[:editor]="vim"
>
>