[chef] Re: Re: Monitoring knife-lastrun?

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Steffen Gebert wrote:

> Thanks kallen, that was an excellent starting point!
> 
> I've never used zabbix_sender, but - of course - it's absolutely the right 
> tool for this job!
> 
> I managed to write a handler that reports execution times and status of 
> chef-client runs to zabbix:
> https://github.com/StephenKing/chef-zabbix-custom-checks/blob/master/templates/default/chef-client/chef-client-handler.rb
> 
> Just a question: Do you log more than plain numbers? (exception stack 
> trace, updated resources etc?). Found nothing out, how to log multiple 
> lines.
 
nope, not at this time. for now, for me, just knowing my clients are
succeeding or failing is good enough. those that fail, i'll ssh in and take
a look.

glad it was helpful! :>

kallen


> Nevertheless, thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Steffen