Knife search returns nothing

Hello All,

We recently had open source chef installed at our work place and everything
seems to be working fine except “knife search”. The result is "0 items found"
irrespective of anything.

Eg: knife search node name:*
0 items found

here is the solr.rb config

Configuration File For Chef SOLR (chef-solr, chef-solr-indexer)

Both the chef-solr and chef-solr-indexer daemons read this configuration

file on startup, as set in /etc/default/chef-solr*.

The chef-solr-indexer program listens to a rabbitmq-server for the /chef

queue, for data stored in the CouchDB. When data is saved to the chef-server,

a message is sent to the queue, and the data is indexed and stored by

chef-solr for search in Chef recipes, or with the ‘knife’ command-line tool.

chef-solr is a solr-jetty instance.

It is a Ruby DSL config file, and can embed regular Ruby code in addition to

the configuration settings. Some settings use Ruby symbols, which are a value

that starts with a colon. In Ruby, anything but ‘false’ or ‘nil’ is true. To

set something to false:

some_setting false

log_location specifies where the indexer should log to.

valid values are: a quoted string specifying a file, or STDOUT with

no quotes.

Corresponds to chef-solr or chef-solr-indexer -l

Both chef-solr and chef-solr-indexer daemons are configured to log in

/etc/default/chef-solr -> /var/log/chef-solr

/etc/default/chef-solr-indexer -> /var/log/chef-solr-indexer

respectively. The jetty log for chef-solr is set in

/etc/chef/solr-jetty/jetty.xml to /var/log/chef/yyyy_mm_dd.jetty.log.

log_location STDOUT

search_index_path specifies where the indexer should store the indexes.

valid value is any filesystem directory location.

search_index_path “/var/lib/chef/search_index”

set the jetty path to use Debian solr-jetty. Additional configuration for

jetty can be found in /etc/chef/solr-jetty (which is symbolically linked to

/var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty/etc).

solr_jetty_path "/var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty"
solr_home_path "/var/lib/chef/solr"
solr_data_path "/var/cache/chef/solr/data"
solr_heap_size “256M”

specifies the URL of the SOLR instance for the indexer to connect to.

To change the port, modify the jetty.port setting in

/etc/chef/solr-jetty/jetty.xml

solr_url “http://localhost:8983

uses the solr_jetty_path option set above, and the etc directory is

actually a symbolic link to /etc/chef/solr-jetty.

solr_java_opts “-DSTART=#{solr_jetty_path}/etc/start.config”

amqp_pass sets the password for the AMQP virtual host in rabbitmq-server.

amqp_pass “xxxxxxx”

Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time specifies whether the log should

contain timestamps.

valid values are true or false. The printed timestamp is rfc2822, for

example:

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:19:46 -0600

Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time = true

The solr logs or the expander logs shows no errors. Its just returns saying the
hits as “0”. Could some one help me on this.

Thanks.

-Ramesh

Hi there,

archaitanya25@gmail.com writes:

We recently had open source chef installed at our work place and everything
seems to be working fine except "knife search". The result is "0 items found"
irrespective of anything.

What version of the open source Chef Server are you using?

Eg: knife search node name:*
0 items found

Does knife node list show your nodes?

The solr logs or the expander logs shows no errors. Its just returns saying the
hits as "0". Could some one help me on this.

When you save a node (or run chef-client on a node) do you see logs
matching the event in expander and solr logs?

  • seth

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