How to increase chef time out ..?

Question

I need to install a software on windows 2008R2 machine which actually takes nearly 40 to 50 minutes .I am able to bootstrap and initiate the process. The installation has begun but after 30 minutes , chef is throwing an error .

ERROR: WinRM::WinRMHTTPTransportError: Bad HTTP response returned from server (500)

I want to know the status of that installation . Is there anyway to increase the timeout ..??

Answer 1

Quoted from https://github.com/xebialabs/overthere#winrm-command-fails-with-a-500-response-code

WinRM command fails with a 500 response code

Multiple causes can lead to this error message:

• If the command was executing for a long time, this might have been caused by a timeout. You can increase the WinRM timeout specified by the winrmTimeout connection option to increase the request timeout. Don't forget to increase the MaxTimeoutms setting on the remote host as well. For example, to set the maximum timeout on the server to five minutes, enter the following command:

  winrm set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms="300000"}
  

Answer 2

That isn't a timeout from Chef itself. It is just reporting that the server sent back an HTTP 500 (WinRM uses SOAP under the hood). Looking through the WinRM service docs there is a MaxShellRunTime that might be what you want, but the default value of that is 8 hours so probably not the timeout you are hitting.