knife status

Use the knife status subcommand to display a brief summary of the nodes on a Chef Infra Server, including the time of the most recent successful Chef Infra Client run.

Syntax

This subcommand has the following syntax:

knife status (options)

Options

Note

Review the list of common options available to this (and all) knife subcommands and plugins.

This subcommand has the following options:

QUERY: The search query used to identify a list of items on a Chef Infra Server. This option uses the same syntax as the search subcommand.
--hide-by-mins: Hide nodes that have performed a successful Chef Infra Client run within the last specified number of minutes. The number of minutes to hide is provided as an integer, such as --hide-by-mins 10.
-l, --long: Display all attributes in the output and show the output as JSON.
-m, --medium: Display normal attributes in the output and to show the output as JSON.
-r RUN_LIST, --run-list RUN_LIST: A comma-separated list of roles and/or recipes to be applied.

Note

See config.rb for more information about how to add certain knife options as settings in the config.rb file.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this knife subcommand:

View status, include run-lists

To include run-lists in the status, enter:

knife status --run-list

to return something like:

20 hours ago, dev-vm.chisamore.com, ubuntu 10.04, dev-vm.chisamore.com, 10.66.44.126, role[lb].
3 hours ago, i-225f954f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-67-202-63-102.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 67.202.63.102, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-a45298c9, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-174-129-127-206.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 174.129.127.206, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-5272a43f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-9-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.9.250, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-226ca64f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-75-101-240-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 75.101.240.230, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-f65c969b, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-60-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.60.141, role[web].

View status using a time range

To show the status of nodes on which Chef Infra Client did not run successfully within the past hour, enter:

knife status --hide-by-mins 60

to return something like:

422492 hours ago, runner-1-432.lxc, centos 6.8.
27 hours ago, union-3-432.lxc, centos 7.3.1611.

View status using a query

To show the status of a subset of nodes that are returned by a specific query, enter:

knife status "role:web" --run-list

to return something like:

3 hours ago, i-225f954f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-67-202-63-102.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 67.202.63.102, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-a45298c9, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-174-129-127-206.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 174.129.127.206, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-5272a43f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-9-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.9.250, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-226ca64f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-75-101-240-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 75.101.240.230, role[web].
3 hours ago, i-f65c969b, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-60-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.60.141, role[web].

View status for all nodes

To view the status of all nodes in the organization, enter:

knife status

to return something like:

20 hours ago, dev-vm.chisamore.com, ubuntu 10.04, dev-vm.chisamore.com, 10.66.44.126
3 hours ago, i-225f954f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-67-202-63-102.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 67.202.63.102
3 hours ago, i-a45298c9, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-174-129-127-206.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 174.129.127.206
3 hours ago, i-5272a43f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-9-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.9.250
3 hours ago, i-226ca64f, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-75-101-240-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 75.101.240.230
3 hours ago, i-f65c969b, ubuntu 10.04, ec2-184-73-60-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com, 184.73.60.141