[chef] Re: Intermittent failures with server 12.0.8?

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 5/29/2015 9:08 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> We run all of our chef clients every 60 minutes.
> 
> Throughout the day, we're seeing clients, both 11.18.0-1 and 12.3.0-1,
> report intermittent 403 authorization errors against Chef Server 12.0.8.

I meant 401 error. More info below.

> Is anyone else seeing this?

Here's one of the hourly cron jobs that failed with 401.

99% of its hourly runs work fine, for over a year. The hour after this
run, it worked fine too, and the next = ... intermittent.

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Authentication Error:
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Failed to authenticate to the chef server (http 401).

Server Response:
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An error occurred while trying to find  'neon'. Please contact support.

Relevant Config Settings:
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chef_server_url   "https://cm.our.org";
node_name         "neon"
client_key        "/etc/chef/client.pem"

If these settings are correct, your client_key may be invalid.

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ws% knife client show neon
admin:      false
chef_type:  client
json_class: Chef::ApiClient
name:       neon
public_key: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQ...snip

===================================================================

% ssh neon sudo /opt/chef/bin/chef-client
[ works fine! ]
%

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Jeff Blaine
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