[chef] Cookbook Releases, Nagios 4.0 edition

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai!

While the upstream Nagios project isn't 4.0 yet, the Opscode cookbook is. 
Special thanks go to Tim Smith for his work in refactoring this cookbook. He 
made it a lot more flexible, and checks are primarily driven through data 
bags, rather than hardcoding preconceived notions into the default 
configuration.

Thanks go to Ben Hartshorne, Josh Behrends, Scott Lampert, and John Dewey as 
well for improvements to this cookbook.

Releases over the past week or so:

## chef-client v2.2.0:

- [COOK-2317] - Provide the ability to add disabled ohai plugins in a
  managed chef config
- [COOK-2255] - Chef-Client Cookbook init.d script under ubuntu

## nagios v4.0.0:

This is a major release that refactors a significant amount of the
service configuration to use data bags rather than hardcoding specific
checks in the templates. The README describes how to create services
via data bags.

The main incompatibility and breaking change is that the default
services that are monitored by Nagios is reduced to only the
"check-nagios" service. This means that existing installations will
need to start converting checks over to the new data bag entries.

- [COOK-1553] - Nagios: check_nagios command does not work if Nagios
  is installed from source
- [COOK-1554] - Nagios: The nagios server should be added to all
  relevant host groups
- [COOK-1746] - nagios should provide more flexibility for server
  aliases
- [COOK-2006] - Extract default checks out of nagios
- [COOK-2129] - If a host is in the _default environment it should go
  into the _default hostgroup
- [COOK-2130] - Chef needs to use the correct nagios plugin path on
  64bit CentOS systems
- [COOK-2131] - gd development packages are not necessary for NRPE
  installs from source
- [COOK-2132] - Update NRPE installs to 2.14 from 2.13
- [COOK-2134] - Handle nagios-nrpe-server and nrpe names for NRPE in
  the init scripts and cookbook
- [COOK-2135] - Use with-nagios-user and group options source NRPE
  installs
- [COOK-2136] - Nagios will not pass config check when multiple
  machines in different domains have the same hostname
- [COOK-2150] - hostgroups data bag search doesn't respect the
  multi_environment_monitoring attribute
- [COOK-2186] - add service escalation to nagios
- [COOK-2188] - A notification interval of zero is valid but
  prohibited by the cookbook
- [COOK-2200] - Templates and Services from data bags don't specify
  intervals in the same way as the rest of the cookbook
- [COOK-2216] - Nagios cookbook readme needs improvement
- [COOK-2240] - Nagios server setup needs to gracefully fail when
  users data bag is not present
- [COOK-2241] - Stylesheets fail to load on a fresh Nagios install
- [COOK-2242] - Remove unused checks in the NRPE config file
- [COOK-2245] - nagios::server writes openid apache configs before
  including apache2::mod_auth_openid
- [COOK-2246] - Most of the commands in the Nagios cookbook don't work
- [COOK-2247] - nagios::client_source sets pkgs to a string, then
  tries to pkgs.each do {|pkg| package pkg }
- [COOK-2257] - Nagios incorrectly tries to use cloud IPs due to a
  OHAI bug
- [COOK-2275] - The Nagios3 download URL attribute is unused
- [COOK-2285] - Refactor data bag searches into library
- [COOK-2294] - Add cas authentication to nagios cookbook
- [COOK-2295] - nagios: chef tries to start nagios-nrpe-server on
  every run
- [COOK-2300] - You should be able to define a nagios_service into the
  "all" host group
- [COOK-2341] - pagerduty_nagios.pl URL changed
- [COOK-2350] - Nagios server fails to start when installed via source
  on Ubuntu/Debian
- [COOK-2369] - Add LDAP support in the nagios cookbook.
- [COOK-2374] - Setting an unmanaged host to a string returns 'no
  method error'
- [COOK-2375] - Allows adding a service that utilizes a pre-existing
  command
- [COOK-2433] - Nagios: ldap authentication needs to handle anonymous
  binding ldap servers

## ohai v1.1.8:

- [COOK-1918] - Ohai cookbook to distribute plugins fails on windows
- [COOK-2096] - Ohai cookbook sets unix-only default path attribute

## unicorn v1.2.0:

- [COOK-2229] - Allow specification of unicorn command line in config file
- [COOK-2349] - Add option to include cow and GC stats
- [COOK-2354] - if no listen options are provided for a port, a
  trailing comma is left which causes unicorn to crash

-- 
Joshua Timberman
Technical Community Manager, Opscode, Inc
IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: jtimberman