Access the Chef client/node name within an Ohai plugin

Question

I'm trying to access node.name from a custom Ohai plugin. This doesn't seem to be available by default.

It is possible to grab the hostname by depending on that attribute with depends 'hostname' , but this value may not always match that of node.name in my situation.

How can I access the node.name from a custom Ohai plugin?

Answer 1

This isn't possible. Ohai can run outside of the context of Chef, so it doesn't know anything about Chef-specific data.