[chef] Re: HELP! I think that I really messed up Chef configuration :(!!

[o haya < >]

Hi Steven,

Wow!  Thanks - I think this was very helpful (but still not sure):

Re. the knife:

The original one, that is kind of working still, but broken now:

PS C:\Users\Administrator\chef-repo> get-command knife | format-list *


HelpUri            :
FileVersionInfo    : File:             C:\opscode\chefdk\bin\knife.bat
                     InternalName:
                     OriginalFilename:
                     FileVersion:
                     FileDescription:
                     Product:
                     ProductVersion:
                     Debug:            False
                     Patched:          False
                     PreRelease:       False
                     PrivateBuild:     False
                     SpecialBuild:     False
                     Language:

Path               : C:\opscode\chefdk\bin\knife.bat
Extension          : .bat
Definition         : C:\opscode\chefdk\bin\knife.bat
Visibility         : Public
OutputType         : {System.String}
Name               : knife.bat
CommandType        : Application
ModuleName         :
Module             :
RemotingCapability : PowerShell
Parameters         :
ParameterSets      :



The new one, which doesn't work at all:

C:\Users\Administrator\chef-repo>exit
PS C:\Users\Administrator\chef-repo> get-command knife | format-list *


HelpUri            :
FileVersionInfo    : File:             c:\opscode\chef\bin\knife.bat
                     InternalName:
                     OriginalFilename:
                     FileVersion:
                     FileDescription:
                     Product:
                     ProductVersion:
                     Debug:            False
                     Patched:          False
                     PreRelease:       False
                     PrivateBuild:     False
                     SpecialBuild:     False
                     Language:

Path               : c:\opscode\chef\bin\knife.bat
Extension          : .bat
Definition         : c:\opscode\chef\bin\knife.bat
Visibility         : Public
OutputType         : {System.String}
Name               : knife.bat
CommandType        : Application
ModuleName         :
Module             :
RemotingCapability : PowerShell
Parameters         :
ParameterSets      :



So it does look like on the "new" one, I'm picking up the knife from a Chef 
client, and not from the Chef DK?

Is that correct?


How can I fix that?  Should I just uninstall the Chef client from that 
machine (this is the AD machine, which did have a Chef client on it 
originally)?




Re. the PEMS, can you clarify what you meant when you said:

"so you'll need to replace those with
 the ones from the most recent starter kit"


Which are "those" and where do I get "the ones from the most recent starter 
kit" (specifically)?



Thanks again!

Jim


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On Mon, 7/13/15, Steven Murawski 
<
 >
 wrote:

 Subject: Re: [chef] HELP!  I think that I really messed up Chef 
configuration :(!!
 To: 

 
 Cc: "o haya" 
<
 >
 Date: Monday, July 13, 2015, 4:05 PM
 
 
                                         So, when you requested the
 starter kit, your previous user pem and  validation.pem
 were invalidated, so you'll need to replace those with
 the ones from the most recent starter kit.
 The second part could be a couple of
 things.  Do you have another install of Chef on the system?
  If you have a Chef Client install as well, you may be
 resolving knife from that install rather than ChefDK.  (and
 each will have their own copy of the various gems).  You
 can test that from PowerShell by using Get-Command knife |
 format-list * and checking out the path it is coming
 from.
 Steve
 Steven MurawskiCommunity Software Development Engineer @
 ChefMicrosoft MVP - PowerShell
 http://stevenmurawski.com
                                        On 7/13/2015 2:52:27
 PM, o haya 
<
 >
 wrote:Hi,
 
 
 
 I originally had the following
 configuration:
 
 
 
 Chef Server (CENTOS 6.6)
 
 Chef Workstation (Windows 2008 w/ChefDK
 installed)
 
 Test AD (Windows 2008)
 
 Test Nodes (Windows 2008)
 
 ..
 
 ..
 
 
 
 I (probably stupidly) decided that I want
 to put the Chef Workstation on the Test AD machine. 
 I'll try to describe what I've done, but things are
 so messed up at this point, I'm not sure exactly
 what's going on or what I did.
 
 
 
 So, I ran the ChefDK installer on the AD
 machine.  Then, I think I got the quickstart ZIP from the
 Chef server, and I unzipped in in the chef-repo directory on
 the AD machine.
 
 
 
 After that, basically nothing worked.
 
 
 
 The first thing I ran into was that the
 Chef-client (the nodes) could not register anymore, getting
 401 errors when i try to run chef-client on them.
 
 
 
 So then, I thought I should try to
 re-bootstrap the nodes but I can't seem to get the
 knife-windows to work on the new Chef workstation.
 
 
 
 I run "chef gem install
 knife-windows" in the chef-repo directory, but then
 when I try to run "knife bootstrap windows winrm "
 it says that the host I'm trying to bootstrap is
 "windows".
 
 
 
 I think that I have some OVAs that I backed
 up from earlier, so I'm going to try to see if I can
 restore them, but can anyone tell me or point me to what
 went wrong?  Is there just no way to "move" the
 Chef Workstation or make a 2nd instance once it's
 installed?  It seems like all the pieces (the nodes, the
 Chef server and the workstation) are permanently linked
 together?
 
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Jim