1. knife-ssh(1)
2. Chef Manual
3. knife-ssh(1)

NAME

knife-ssh - Run a command or interactive session on multiple remote hosts

SYNOPSIS

knife ssh QUERY COMMAND (options)

-a, --attribute ATTR

The attribute to use for opening the connection - default is fqdn

-C, --concurrency NUM

The number of concurrent connections

-m, --manual-list

QUERY is a space separated list of servers

-P, --ssh-password PASSWORD

The ssh password

-x, --ssh-user USERNAME

The ssh username

The ssh sub-command opens an ssh session to each of the nodes in the search results of the QUERY. This sub-command requires that the net-ssh-multi and highline Ruby libraries are installed. On Debian systems, these are the libnet-ssh-multi-ruby and libhighline-ruby packages. They can also be installed as RubyGems (net-ssh-multi and highline, respectively).

1. Chef 0.10.0.beta.8
2. April 2011
3. knife-ssh(1)