[chef] Re: Monitoring knife-lastrun?

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi Torben,

I saw that presentation, too, (online) and knife-lastrun was my starting 
point.

Besides the report handler for zabbix, I've also added it to our hosts 
yesterday. So it's pretty easy to inspect the reason for a failure through 
knife.

Yours
Steffen

On 11.06.2012, at 07:27, 

 
 wrote:

> 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