[chef] Re: Monitoring knife-lastrun?

[Daniel Schauenberg < >]

Hi,

wouldn't report and exception handlers be the better choice here? Sounds like 
using knife lastrun is just adding complexity?

Cheers,
Daniel

On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Tetsu Soh wrote:

> 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
> 
>