on the chef server we do not have reporting enabled. so we do not want each client to spend time and error out trying to send reporting data.
Add:
enable_reporting false
to your /etc/chef/client.rb
or whichever config file you’re using.
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb contains the possible configuration options for the chef client.
-Thom
thank you!! that fixed the issue