- From: Ranjib Dey <
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- Subject: [chef] Re: How to monitor if chef-client is actually working
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:14:21 +0530
We use nagios as our alerting/monitoring solution and i have written an nsca based chef report handler that submits the chef client run status via send_nsca command to a nsca server (which in turn submits a passive check on the nagios.cmd pipe). It assumes nsca-client is installed on the chef client nodes and nsca daemon is running (and configured ) on the nagios box.
You can get the script here:
https://github.com/ranjibd/nsca_handlerYou can also use nrpe based active checks, but i guess that will introduce some delay, but also helps you detecting in case the client crashes (which im experiencing with ruby 1.9.2 )
regards
ranjib
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Robert Keng
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Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to monitor chef-client to make sure it isn't stuck in retries because of some error in some recipe? Does the client actually reply back to the chef-server if its able to apply all recipes and things are happy?
I apologize if this is a really simple question, fairly new to chef...Just I'd rather not have to parse /var/log/chef/client.log for this, thanks!
-Robert
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