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

[Jeff Blaine < >]

On 2/3/2014 9:07 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
> 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

There is a handler as part of knife-lastrun. We started using
this handler and love it.

    https://github.com/jgoulah/knife-lastrun

Direct link to the handler's code so you can see what it stores
on each node object:


https://github.com/jgoulah/knife-lastrun/blob/master/lib/lastrun_update.rb

Super. A++++. Would install again.

Jeff Blaine


>>> If you’re talking about the new reporting data on preview.opscode.com
>>> <http://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