[chef] Re: Re: Re: node status tracking time stamp

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, February 3, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Jasna Benčić wrote:

If you’re talking about the “classic” status page which just lists the last time chef ran (and has the same info as `knife status`), that timestamp comes from ohai as the “ohai_time” attribute, which you can observe during a chef run with `node[“ohai_time”]`. Source: https://github.com/opscode/ohai/blob/master/lib/ohai/plugins/ohai_time.rb

Exactly that

If you’re talking about the new reporting data on preview.opscode.com (can also be installed in on-premises Enterprise Chef), that data is collected by the resource reporter: https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/resource_reporter.rb I haven’t personally tried it, but if you want an open source option for reporting what chef has changed on a system, you could try this: https://github.com/theforeman/chef-handler-foreman

HTH,

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Daniel DeLeo

But, also links on second paragraph are really helpful . One more question. Is it possible to pull off something like that for cookbooks that are on Chef server? So I get their last change and time when change has happened. 

For the moment, no. You’d have to parse the HTTP logs, which might require a custom log format to record info from the authentication headers. This is something we’re actively working on.

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Daniel DeLeo