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ThyRaju
ThyRaju

Reputation: 425

ERROR in running chef-client on node

INFO: Error while reporting run start to Data Collector. URL: https://api.chef.io/organizations/james/data-collector Exception: 404 -- 404 "Not Found" (This is normal if you do not have Chef Automate)

I'm using windows(2012R2) machine as workstation, and ubuntu(14.04) as node. Bootstrapping node was completed, I updated one cookbook, I ran chef-client in node, But my recipes were not updated, It throwing above error. What I need to do? From where(/etc/chef/ or /home/ubuntu/ or /var/ or ??) I need to run this chef-client command?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2725

Answers (2)

Steve Baroti
Steve Baroti

Reputation: 188

  1. Please run the chef client in debug mode, it will provide more information: chef-client -ldebug
  2. Please check chef-client logs and focus on messages flagged with "ERROR"; the "INFO" message above is not the real reason of the failure;
  3. I guess the bootstrapped node does not have sufficient permissions to "read" (or "update") objects in the Chef server. This can be fixed using the Chef Server Management web interface: look-up the node with problems, check its permissions tab ("Details" - "Attributes" - "Permissions"): admins, clients, user, nodes..., add the name of the node /client, tick the appropriate permission checkbox: read, write etc.

Upvotes: 0

coderanger
coderanger

Reputation: 54211

As mentioned in the error itself, this is normal if you aren't using Chef Automate, it's not a fatal error and doesn't hurt Chef at all (other than the data collector subsystem disables itself since it has no server to report to).

Upvotes: 0

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