How to distribute configuration files via Chef to all NetWitness nodes?

[TomiReiman]

I would like to centrally manage nslcd.conf for centralized LDAP authentication for all my NetWitness hosts. Before 11.0 I would have had the competency to do this with Puppet, but with the switch to Chef I no longer know what is needed to accomplish this.

What are the steps required to add a new recipe to Chef to distribute a copy of my nslcd.conf from the NetWitness Server to all core hosts?

[EricPartington]

the command you want to use is salt-cp

salt-cp '*' file.copy /root/hello.txt /root/hello.txt

this copies the file hello.txt from /root/hello.txt on Node0 (head) to all the other nodes.

when run it looks like this

600cf230-e592-4fd3-b669-9fa13c232d54:
----------
/root/hello.txt:
True
79cbb57e-a47f-4b05-82a8-509ed7cadfea:
----------
/root/hello.txt:
True
b7498e33-89de-4a51-b142-fb28e7b55fa6:
----------
/root/hello.txt:
True

if you wanted to see what those ID were in terms of system hostname you could do the following

salt '*' cmd.run 'hostname ; echo' 2>&-

which gives you

cf714e65-98ee-4596-ba61-39dd18f65c7b:
nw11endpoint
fddf1b5c-dece-4d75-8ead-69fffae408b1:
nw11head
79cbb57e-a47f-4b05-82a8-509ed7cadfea:
nw11pdecoder

or install a package on all nodes

salt '*' pkg.install  man