# Chef-server.Outdated nodes(VMs)

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-server-outdated-nodes-vms/19631>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-server-outdated-nodes-vms/19631 "2021-03-04T17:02:20Z")\
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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:

1. 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