[chef] Re: Monitoring chef-client failures

[Bryan Baugher < >]

Chef has built-in json reporting[1]. Just grab this cookbook from opscode[2] and apply the json_file recipe to each node. You will then get a massive report of each run at /var/chef/reports/.

If you also look at Chef's exception handling[1] they give you examples on how to use[2] and also how to expand your error handling.

Bryan

[1] - http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Exception+and+Report+Handlers
[2] - https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks/tree/master/chef_handler

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Haim Ashkenazi < "> > wrote:

Hi

I was wondering if there's a way to monitor whether the last chef-client run failed? I can always parse the last few lines of /var/log/chef/client.log, but I was wondering if there's an easier way?

Thanks in advance
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Haim