How to get the version of chef-client running on windows node using knife search query ?. For example for linux nodes it is very easy as below will get the desired results.
knife search node "name:xyz" -a name -a ipaddress -a os -a platform -a platform_family -a packages.**chef** -c knife.rb
Is there a similar way for windows nodes ??
List all endpoints' chef client version:
knife node list | xargs -n 1 knife node show -a chef_packages.chef.version
List a single endpoint chef client version:
knife node show nodename -a chef_packages.chef.version
get the chef-client version by execute chef-client --version over ssh. something like:
knife ssh "name:xyz" "chef-client -v" -a name
another way, it to store the chef-client version as a node attribute and then retrive it via search
node.default['chef-client']['version'] = Gem.loaded_specs['chef'].version
or by running chef-client -v and storing it as a node attribute.
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@Mr. : That will be a time consuming activity and also credentials are required. However i found another way of doing it i.e run knife search as below. And filter the results for the required package.
knife search node "name:<name>" -a name -a ipaddress -a packages -c knife.rb
