[chef] Re: Problems with Search?

[Adam Jacob < >]

Ash, can you give use some gists of the log output from the Chef
Server at the time?

Solr logs would help as well.

Adam

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Ash Berlin 
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 wrote:
> So some of my nagios checks started failing just now because the search 
> that fills out allowed_hosts in nrpe.cfg was empty. This is the second time 
> this happened to me - the first was immediately after upgrading to 
> chef-server 0.9.12.
>
> The server is The clients in question are still on 0.9.8.
>
> My cookbook code is (probably the standard nagios::client cookbook, 
> possibly a few versions out of date):
>
> search(:node, "roles:monitoring AND 
> app_environment:#{node[:app_environment]}") do |n|
>  mon_host << n['ipaddress']
> end
>
> ...
>
> template "/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg" do
>  source "nrpe.cfg.erb"
>  owner "nagios"
>  group "nagios"
>  mode "0644"
>  variables :mon_host => mon_host
>  notifies :restart, resources(:service => "nagios-nrpe-server")
> end
> __END__
>
> The initial problem on upgrading the server was the search was previously 
> "role:..." which was working fine but needed to be changed to "roles:...".
>
> However this time nothing changed and simply logging in to the problem 
> hosts and re-running chef-client fixed it.
>
> What went wrong and how to I track it down so it doesn't happen again?
>
> -ash



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