[chef] Port and Process resource abstractions?

[Tom H < >]

Ohai Chefs,

I have downloaded the monit and firewall cookbooks, and I can see that 
they use various strategies to allow other cookbooks to configure 
monitoring or setup firewall rules.

That is the monit cookbooks, typically define a monitrc resource which 
can be used in other cookbooks such as mysql; so

monitrc "mysql" do
    port 3306
    pid /some/path/to/pid.file
end

or the fire wall offers a rule like so;

firewall_rule "mysql" do
    port 3306
    networks 10.0.0.0/8
end

But wouldn't it make sense to offer that abstraction at a higher level, 
and promote Process and Ports to the resource level, and rather than 
couple your app to monit as above, just have your mysql::server recipe 
declare the resources that monit might use.

port "mysql" do
    port 3306
    networks 10.0.0.0/8
end

process "mysql" do
    pidfile /some/path/to/pid.file
end

And monit can come and enumerate any ports and pids that it should be 
monitoring from the node in its monit::install recipe... The same 
applies to the firewall cookbook. Its not like there are not some very 
well used common abstractions in monitoring and fire-walling 
applications already...

Any suggestions on whether someone has done this already, and why it 
might not make sense to do this would be appreciated...?

Thanks,
Tom