[chef] Re: Re: bash -> chef

[Edward Morbius < >]

Thanks.  Giving that a shot (a few twists on the recipe shown, so I'm
not using it directly).

And it seems to answer my first question:  there's no way of handling
an apt archive sourced from a URL directly.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Alan Harper 
<
 >
 wrote:
> Have a look at the new relic cookbook at
> https://github.com/heavywater/chef-newrelic
>
> On 10/08/2012, at 10:45 AM, Edward Morbius 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>
> I've been trying to wrap my head around chef and translating what
> would be a trivial bash script into the chef equivalent.
>
> The goal is to include NewRelic's host server (not application)
> monitoring on an Ubuntu box.
>
> The bash process:
>
>    # Grab New Relic's apt sources.list fragment and tuck it away in
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d
>    wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrelic.list
> http://download.newrelic.com/debian/newrelic.list
>    # Get their signing key (value previously ascertained)
>    apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 548C16BF
>    # Run apt-get update and install package
>    apt-get update
>    apt-get install newrelic-sysmond
>    # Set your license key (presumably stuffed in an encrypted data bag)
>    nrsysmond-config --set license_key=<% key_ID %>
>    # Launch the daemon
>    /etc/init.d/newrelic-sysmond start
>
> The easiest JGID method would be to write a ruby wrapper around the
> bash.  For parts of this I find chef methods.
>
> There's an "apt" cookbook which can do some things, including adding a
> sources.list line, but apparently not downloading a sources.list.d/
> fragment from a known URL.  Am I missing something?
>
> The apt cookbook provides for getting the signing key:
>
>    apt_repository "newrelic-servermon" do
>        keyserver "keyserver.pgp.edu"
>        key "548C16BF"
>    end
>
> Running the config step looks like another shell wrapper.
>
> The service resource should be able to start the daemon:
>
>    service "newrelic-servermon" do
>        supports :status -> true, :restart => true, :reload => true
>        action [:enable, :start]
>    end
>
>
> A nice "plus" feature would be an easy way to add, say, "monit"
> monitoring and possibly Nagios configuration for any given service,
> rather than managing these separately in a Nagios recipe.
>
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Dr. Ed Morbius
> Chief Scientist / Philologist / Robot Wrangler / Powerplant Operator
> Krell Power Systems Unlimited
>
>



-- 
Dr. Ed Morbius
Chief Scientist / Philologist / Robot Wrangler / Powerplant Operator
Krell Power Systems Unlimited