Does 'knife winrm' use Chef Server?

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Hi,
Just curious if ‘knife winrm’ goes through the Chef Server or communicates directly with the node ?

thanks in advance.

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Both? It queries the Chef server for which nodes to connect to, based on the query and attributes you select, and then talks directly to those nodes over WinRM.

Nathan Clemons
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But don’t we already specify the node name to knife winrm and the command it needs to execute ? So why go to the Chef Server?
e.g.
knife winrm -m node1 ‘iisreset’ -x testuser -P testpass

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Because –m says to bypass querying the Chef server and specify the node list manually. If you did something like “knife winrm ‘recipes:iis’ –x testuser –P testpass” it would fire against all nodes that have the iis recipe in their runlist.

Nathan Clemons
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Moxie Cloud Services (MCS)

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