[chef] Re: Best Practice to enable report handlers.

["steve ." < >]

There's no reason not to put them in client.rb.  I usually use the LWRP just because it's easier to add and remove them via run list.

Well, I guess there's no reason except that if you somehow distribute a *broken* handler to all your nodes, you then (IIRC from early ~10.0 experimentation) effectively kill their ability to check in until you can roll back the broken handler or the client.rb that calls it.

So using the LWRP / recipe / run list method, your nodes are still checking in and getting updated code.  If the code says, "Add this handler" and the handler raises a big stinky exception, you modify the cookbook or take the recipe/role that adds the handler out of the run list.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Judd Maltin < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

report handlers question:  why NOT enable them in client.rb?  I have a
large environment, and I want to ensure that it's run EACH AND EVERY
time.

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