# Deleting unsuccessful node registery

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/deleting-unsuccessful-node-registery/10423>\
**Category:** Chef Automate\
**Created:** [February 15, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/deleting-unsuccessful-node-registery/10423 "2017-02-15T18:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![prash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@prash](https://discourse.chef.io/u/prash)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/deleting-unsuccessful-node-registery/10423/1 "2017-02-15T18:27:38Z")

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Greetings Profesionals,

So far i have registered like 400+nodes to chef server , among those there are some failures and i had to register them again and so while doing the bootstrap even though the particular node which failed while bootstrapping when i try them to register again it shows me a message : “exists, overwrite it? (Y/N)”… is there any command which specifically shows the failed nodes or missing nodes …

for Example like in “git” we can see the un tracked jobs similarly do we have any utility to avoid this

Please help  
Thanks  
Prash