On the Chef server, you can get a list of nodes and the status of the last update of their status.
This can be used for monitoring and for checking stale nodes.
We carry out work in 2 main stages in the following phases.
Semi-manual-output a list of knife status or knife status -F json + jq and look for irrelevant ones.
Cleaning knife node delete, knife client delete
First you need a list:
- Remote VMs
2.The list of problematic nodes and the diagnostics performed why and where to open access or fix problems.
Help me make a request
There is a chef-server(number of VMs - 1700). Version - chef-server 12.17.33