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 a Node Management agent, follow these steps:

Create a file named register-agent-skill.json that contains the settings for Node Management agent to function:
```
{
"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 the 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. Value starting from 3600 (1 hr).
- <UPDATE_SKILL_INTERVAL> with the interval (in seconds) at which skill definitions will be updated. Value starting from 3600 (1 hr).
- <LOG_LEVEL>: The logging level of the agent. For example, debug.

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.