Register Node Management agent

The Node Management agent manages skills on a node. You must define settings on the Node Management agent before defining skills and override settings that are installed on nodes.

Prerequisites

• CLIs are installed and registered.

Register the Node Management agent

To register a Node Management agent, follow these steps:

1. Create a file named register-agent-skill.json that contains the settings for Node Management agent to function:

   {
   "bldrUrl": "<HABITAT_BUILDER_URL>",
   "bldrChannel": "<CHANNEL>",
   "bldrAuthToken": "<TOKEN>",
   "nodeCheckinInterval": <CHECK_IN_INTERVAL>,
   "updateSkillMetadataInterval": <UPDATE_SKILL_INTERVAL>,
   "logLevel": "<LOG_LEVEL>"
   }
   

   Replace:

   • <HABITAT_BUILDER_URL> with the Chef Habitat Builder URL. Use https://bldr.habitat.sh for Chef’s Habitat Builder, or the URL of your own Habitat Builder deployment.
   • <CHANNEL> with the release channel from which to install the skills. For example, stable.
   • <TOKEN> with the authentication token for Habitat Builder. If you’re using Chef’s Habitat Builder, set this to an empty string.
   • <CHECK_IN_INTERVAL> with the interval (in seconds) at which check-in occurs. Value starting from 3600 (1 hr).
   • <UPDATE_SKILL_INTERVAL> with the interval (in seconds) at which skill definitions will be updated. Value starting from 3600 (1 hr).
   • <LOG_LEVEL>: The logging level of the agent. For example, debug.

2. Create the skill assembly:

   chef-node-management-cli management skill update-agent --body-file register-agent-skill.json
   

   It returns the following response:

   {
    "code" : 200,
    "message" : update-agent successful
   }
   

More information

• See the documentation on creating and managing a skill assembly.

Next step

• Create skill definitions.