Chef WebUI doesn´t work

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Hi Chefs,

the WEBUI of my Chef server is not working, showing the error “We’re sorry,
but something went wrong.”, the commands knife works. What I can see is
that the clients “chef-validator & chef-webui” are not there.

How can I recover it?

Regards,

Eduardo

2

Like any other web based service, start from the top.

   What version of chef are you running?
   What''s the base operating system?
   How did you install it? (RPM package from Opscode, gem instlalation, or what?)
   Since chef by default runs as a web service on port 443, do you have another web server running?
   Are your chef clients still working?

From: Eduardo Dias [eduardodiasbr@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:42 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Chef WebUI doesn´t work

Hi Chefs,

the WEBUI of my Chef server is not working, showing the error “We’re sorry, but something went wrong.”, the commands knife works. What I can see is that the clients “chef-validator & chef-webui” are not there.

How can I recover it?

Regards,

Eduardo

3

Hi Nico,

thanks.

I have recreated the chef-webui client and it works now, I am with a
problem to restore the chef-validator keys to avoid to redistribute it for
all systems that I have.

Regards.

Eduardo

2013/11/12 Kadel-Garcia, Nico NKadelGarcia-consultant@scholastic.com

Like any other web based service, start from the top.

   What version of chef are you running?
   What''s the base operating system?
   How did you install it? (RPM package from Opscode, gem

instlalation, or what?)
Since chef by default runs as a web service on port 443, do you
have another web server running?
Are your chef clients still working?

From: Eduardo Dias [eduardodiasbr@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:42 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Chef WebUI doesn´t work

Hi Chefs,

the WEBUI of my Chef server is not working, showing the error "We're
sorry, but something went wrong.", the commands knife works. What I can
see is that the clients "chef-validator & chef-webui" are not there.

How can I recover it?

Regards,

Eduardo

--

Atenciosamente,

Eduardo

4

Eduardo,

Any existing nodes already managed by Chef have their own private client
key for authenticating API requests. The validator is only needed by new
nodes which aren't yet controlled by Chef. So hopefully you shouldn't need
to redistribute the validator to too many nodes.

-George

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Eduardo Dias eduardodiasbr@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Nico,

thanks.

I have recreated the chef-webui client and it works now, I am with a
problem to restore the chef-validator keys to avoid to redistribute it for
all systems that I have.

Regards.

Eduardo

2013/11/12 Kadel-Garcia, Nico NKadelGarcia-consultant@scholastic.com

Like any other web based service, start from the top.

   What version of chef are you running?
   What''s the base operating system?
   How did you install it? (RPM package from Opscode, gem

instlalation, or what?)
Since chef by default runs as a web service on port 443, do you
have another web server running?
Are your chef clients still working?

From: Eduardo Dias [eduardodiasbr@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:42 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Chef WebUI doesn´t work

Hi Chefs,

the WEBUI of my Chef server is not working, showing the error "We're
sorry, but something went wrong.", the commands knife works. What I can
see is that the clients "chef-validator & chef-webui" are not there.

How can I recover it?

Regards,

Eduardo

--

Atenciosamente,

Eduardo

--
George Miranda
Consultant, Evangelist, Trainer, : | Opscode Inc.
gmiranda@opscode.com | (512) 481-2876
Twitter, IRC, GitHub, Most IMs: gmiranda23

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Thanks all,

Eduardo

2013/11/12 George Miranda gmiranda@opscode.com

Eduardo,

Any existing nodes already managed by Chef have their own private client
key for authenticating API requests. The validator is only needed by new
nodes which aren't yet controlled by Chef. So hopefully you shouldn't need
to redistribute the validator to too many nodes.

-George

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Eduardo Dias eduardodiasbr@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Nico,

thanks.

I have recreated the chef-webui client and it works now, I am with a
problem to restore the chef-validator keys to avoid to redistribute it for
all systems that I have.

Regards.

Eduardo

2013/11/12 Kadel-Garcia, Nico NKadelGarcia-consultant@scholastic.com

Like any other web based service, start from the top.

   What version of chef are you running?
   What''s the base operating system?
   How did you install it? (RPM package from Opscode, gem

instlalation, or what?)
Since chef by default runs as a web service on port 443, do you
have another web server running?
Are your chef clients still working?

From: Eduardo Dias [eduardodiasbr@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:42 AM
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] Chef WebUI doesn´t work

Hi Chefs,

the WEBUI of my Chef server is not working, showing the error "We're
sorry, but something went wrong.", the commands knife works. What I can
see is that the clients "chef-validator & chef-webui" are not there.

How can I recover it?

Regards,

Eduardo

--

Atenciosamente,

Eduardo

--
George Miranda
Consultant, Evangelist, Trainer, : | Opscode Inc.
gmiranda@opscode.com | (512) 481-2876
Twitter, IRC, GitHub, Most IMs: gmiranda23

--

Atenciosamente,

Eduardo