[chef] Re: Monitoring chef runs

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Same here, we're logging into Zabbix:

https://github.com/StephenKing/chef-zabbix-custom-checks/blob/master/templates/default/chef-client/chef-client-handler.rb

Yours
Steffen

On Sep 6, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Steffen Gebert 
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> Same here, we're logging into Zabbix:
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> https://github.com/StephenKing/chef-zabbix-custom-checks/blob/master/templates/default/chef-client/chef-client-handler.rb
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> Yours
> Steffen
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> On Sep 6, 2012, at 1:40 AM, David Petzel 
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>> +1 for handlers. we have an email exception handler. The handler is 
>> applied in our base role (early on), in QA and Prod environments, but 
>> disabled in other environments so we don't spam ourselves while developing 
>> and testing updates. We are still pretty early on in our implementation, 
>> but so far this has been working for us.
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>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Brian Hatfield 
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>> I'm not sure if it's the quickest, but we use Chef handlers: 
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Exception+and+Report+Handlers
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>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Paul McCallick 
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>> Hi all,
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>> We’re fairly new to chef and have been manually executing chef runs on one 
>> or many nodes.  We just made the move to run it as a service via the 
>> chef-client cookbook.
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>> What’s the quickest way to make sure that we’re getting notified when 
>> there are problems during a chef run?  What’s the best way?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Paul
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