[chef] RE: How to tell when recipes fail?

[Paul Choi < >]

I have a script that runs in cron, checking for the last time that a client 
has checked in.

I found that node[ohai_time] records when a client has checked in. So if 
threshold < Time.now - node[ohai_time], notify.

This is the code that runs via cron on my servers:
https://gist.github.com/668386

Please feel free to use it ifyou'd like, and feedback is welcome.

-Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Williams 
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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:43 PM
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Subject: [chef] How to tell when recipes fail?

On the Chef web_ui "Status" page, I can see when each node last checked-in 
with the server, but there does not appear to be any indication of failures 
during running of recipes!

What's the recommended way of detecting and reporting on failures?

When chef-client uploads node state to the server, at the end of a run, does 
it persist any information about the success/failure of the run_list?

Should I be registering an exception/report handler?  And if so, has anyone 
written a handler that persists saves the run-reports to a central DB of some 
kind?

-- 
cheers, 
Mike Williams