[chef] Re: chef-client and error handlers

[Mike < >]

Hi Michael!

In our environments, we run Chef as a daemon, and it executes every 30 minutes (or so, depending on splay).

We use the chef-handler-datadog plugin [1] (I work at Datadog, so that seemed likely), which will report the status to Chef Runs in a nice, aggregated manner [2].

[1]: https://supermarket.chef.io/tools/chef-handler-datadog

[2]: http://cl.ly/image/451Z2i0E0n0N

Best,

-M

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:43 AM, michael david mosier < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thank you everyone for helping me  with naming conventions.

I have another question. Again I am fairly new to this so I may have just not learned how this works yet.


If someone has 1000 nodes. Going to each machine and running chef-client doesn't feel like it's the best way to do things. I know on the enterprise side they have a push type plugin. I also know with knife I can force a push to all the nodes. The problem I see with this is you may need to write an error handler into a recipe so you will know that something that was just updated on the node errored out. If your on each machine you can see on the screen if it errored out when you run chef-client but remotely I am not sure how to handle catching errors. I was thinking since there are two built in error handlers maybe I could write a script that would email me whenever an error occurs but that may mean that each node has to have send-mail running.

1. How do you all deal with updating multiple nodes without SSHing to each and running chef-client

2. How do you all deal with error  handling.

Thank yo so much

Michael D. Mosier
Systems Guy
University Of Texas
Astro Physics