chef client run in aws bootup script not getting registered in chef server

Question

We have used below command to run on booting aws machine. It ran chef client and software is installed. But i am not able to find server in chef console when i searched with vm ip address.

chef-client -r 'role[test]'

Can some one explain chef-client -r option works

Answer 1

The -r flag runs chef-client as normal but replaces the run-list coming from the Chef Server with the one specified on the command line. The two likely reasons for your confusion are either that chef-client is hitting an error which prevents the node data from being saved back to the server, or the way you are searching isn't correct. If you are looking for ipaddress:1.2.3.4 , make sure you are using the private IP address (I think).