[chef] Re: Monitoring knife-lastrun?

[Tetsu Soh < >]

Hi,

May be different from what you are asking, we are using Grill to monitor 
Chef run status.
It has a good GUI with alter and report feature and very easy to setup.

You can get a trial version to try Grill out.

Regards,

Tetsu


On 6/10/12 1:17 AM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to monitor the output of knife-lastrun (to check execution time + 
> failed runs).
>
> Is anyone of you already doing this (we're using Zabbix, but I would say this 
> fact doesn't matter..).
>
> Do you see any other way than:
> *) give the client on our monitoring station chef admin privileges to retrieve 
> the values via knife (<- bad idea..)
> *) modify the knife-lastrun gem to write stats into a local file (however I 
> have no clue, how to do this - I'm not a ruby guy :().
> *) or does knife-lastrun already write stats to a local file? However the 
> code looks like it only writes to log and saves to the node.
>
> Would be nice, if someone could help me!
>
> Yours
> Steffen