Installing workstation for managing Chef server

A workstation is a computer that is configured to run knife, to synchronize with the chef-repo, and interact with a single Chef server. The workstation is the location from which most users will do most of their work.

We need ti install on our workstation:

  • knife
  • chef-sdk
  • chef-repo
  • ruby

 

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The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120

Today I received error on my vm summary page in Vsphere web client: The data service timed out because a back-end task took more than 120 seconds. See the vsphere-client-virgo.log for more details.

Just before that I removed a test vcenter server, which was connected to my PSC  on production Vsphere instance.

You need to remove a stale vCenter Server from your SSO environment, use the cmsso-util. It may takes a long time but does the job.

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