[chef] Re: Re: Problems with Search?

[Ash Berlin < >]

https://gist.github.com/860921611bbcaca7b338

Let me know if you need more and I'll get it in the morning - its 00:30 here 
now.

-ash

On 27 Jan 2011, at 00:12, Adam Jacob wrote:
> 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 
> <
 >
>  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 possibly a few versions out of date):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