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Sometimes a database object can get deleted but the Solr index entry will remain.

This can cause problems such as infinite Chef Search API request loops (for knife and I believe for Manage).

The following procedure identifies remaining index entries and provides a way to delete them.

# set the name of the organization you are interested in
export ORG_NAME=demo

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Configure the chef server to push statistics in statsd format

cat >>/etc/opscode/chef-server.rb <<EOF
estatsd['protocol'] = 'statsd'
EOF
chef-server-ctl reconfigure

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require 'pg'
require 'json'

def pull_chef11_db_credentials
  puts "Pulling open source Chef 11 database credentials"
  if !File.exists?("/etc/chef-server/chef-server-running.json")
    puts "Failed to find /etc/chef-server/chef-server-running.json"
    exit 1
  end

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Reference READMEs:

• dev-lxc

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input {
  stdin {
    type => "stdin-type"
  }

  file {
    type => "erchef"
    path => [ "/dev-shared/logstash/*" ]
    start_position => "beginning"
  }

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async process on windows that doesn't block chef run

batch "run" do
  code 'powershell -c "start-process notepad.exe"'
end

https://opscode.hipchat.com/history/room/12542/2013/10/15?q=notepad.exe#17:43:33

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849848.aspx

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The following Chef products were released with security patches in response to the Heartbleed openssl vulnerability.

* Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.3
* Manage add-on 1.3.1
* Reporting add-on 1.1.1
* Push-Jobs-Server add-on 1.1.1
* Push-Jobs-Client 1.0.2
* Chef Client 11.12.2

### Upgrade Instructions for Enterprise Chef Server

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Authoritative docs are here

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These instructions are now maintained in docs.opscode.com

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

require 'thor'
require 'base64'
require 'openssl'
require 'time'

class GatlingChef < Thor
  desc 'update FILE', 'Update timestamps and re-sign Chef authentication ' +