```ruby
#
# Cookbook Name:: ohai
# Recipe:: default
#
# Copyright 2010, Opscode, Inc
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#

Ohai::Config[:plugin_path] << node.ohai.plugin_path
Chef::Log.info("ohai plugins will be at: #{node.ohai.plugin_path}")

d = directory node.ohai.plugin_path do
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode 0755
  recursive true
  action :nothing
end

d.run_action(:create)

rd = remote_directory node.ohai.plugin_path do
  source 'plugins'
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode 0755
  action :nothing
end

rd.run_action(:create)

o = Ohai::System.new
o.all_plugins
node.automatic_attrs.merge! o.data
```

Make sure that lshw is available on all system. This was making the switch_config variables empty and the UI having issues.
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```ruby
#
# Cookbook Name:: ohai
# Recipe:: default
#
# Copyright 2010, Opscode, Inc
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#

Ohai::Config[:plugin_path] << node.ohai.plugin_path
Chef::Log.info("ohai plugins will be at: #{node.ohai.plugin_path}")

p = package "lshw" do
  action :nothing
end
p.run_action(:install)

d = directory node.ohai.plugin_path do
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode 0755
  recursive true
  action :nothing
end

d.run_action(:create)

rd = remote_directory node.ohai.plugin_path do
  source 'plugins'
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode 0755
  action :nothing
end

rd.run_action(:create)

o = Ohai::System.new
o.all_plugins
node.automatic_attrs.merge! o.data
```
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