Run Chef Recipe: Options

Use the Options window to specify any Runtime or Output options in order to optimize runtime performance.

  • Runtime Options: this option enables you to override all Chef parameters, except the following:
 

Option

Description of override limitation

-c

The configuration file cannot be overridden by this option. If you want to use a different configuration file, you will need to update the content of the existing one.

--no-color

This option is not relevant in the SA Client environment.

-o

Mixing the selected recipes with another list of recipes provided by the -o option is not supported.

If you provide override parameters containing paths, the chef-solo command cannot work properly both for UNIX and Windows machines. If you provide override parameters containing filesystem paths, you must run the job separately for UNIX and Windows machines.

  • Output Options: specify how to handle the job output.

    These options support customizing the chef run and storing the chef run output.

    Jobs can generate a maximum of 10 KB of screen output per server. Use this option to determine whether to keep or delete the job log after the job is run.
    • If you choose to retain the log output, you can specify the maximum size (in KB) of the file to retain, up to 10 KB.
    • If you choose to discard all job output, then the chef-solo output will not be retained.

For more information, see Run Chef Recipes.