[chef] Re: Re: Email notification upon success or failure (with logs)

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Maven User wrote:
>> Looking over various available cookbooks, searching through the wiki and 
>> then good 'ol google - I didn't find a way to incorporate a mailing 
>> notification that didn't require additional software to be installed on 
>> the client manually.
>> 
>> What is the typical approach for sending email notification when a 
>> chef-client run is complete?
>> 
>> Are handlers really the only way?
> Yes, handlers are the only way at present. Server side notifications may be 
> added in a future release of Chef, but there's nothing set in stone at the 
> moment.

That said, it needn't be manual; look at the handlers recipe in the 
chef-client cookbook.