[chef] Re: What is a simple method to arrange e-mail notification of failed convergence?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Nov 25, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Phil Mocek 
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> Daniel DeLeo wrote:
>> there are already ones written that do what you’re asking, like
>> this one: https://github.com/kisoku/chef-handler-mail
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> That's not quite what I'm asking, which is for a simple method to
> configure chef-client to send an e-mail to a particular address if
> convergence fails.

For chef-client to do that, the node would have to have some sort of SMTP 
server installed, and a whole bunch of other dependencies.  That kind of 
thing isn't built into Chef -- if you want notifications sent on behalf of a 
chef-client run, then you need some sort of chef-handler.

Keep in mind that chef-client is not a standalone program.  It's part of a 
much larger system, and there's huge chunks to that system that chef-client 
doesn't make any attempt to address -- it relies on those other parts of the 
system for that.  When you're managing a cluster of thousands of systems, it 
doesn't make sense to duplicate that infrastructure on each and every one of 
them -- instead, you implement that part of the system in one place, and let 
all the other parts of the system leverage that.

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