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 the Node Management agent in Chef 360 Platform, follow these steps:

Create a file named register-agent-skill.json that defines the Node Management agent settings:
```
{
"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 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. Values start at 3600 (1 hour).
  The check-in interval splay is automatically set to a value between 0 and half the check-in interval time.
- <UPDATE_SKILL_INTERVAL> with the interval (in seconds) at which skill definitions are updated. Values start at 3600 (1 hour).
  The update skill interval splay is automatically set to a value between 0 and half the check-in interval time.
- <LOG_LEVEL>: The logging level of the agent. For example, debug.
  Supported log levels:
  debug
  Reports detailed information that can aid in identifying issues or debugging a workload. This includes the info, warn, and error logs.
  info
  Reports general information about the system’s operations.
  warn
  Reports potential failures, but the operation can continue functioning for the time being.
  error
  Reports errors that prevent the execution of an operation.

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.