newrelic-sysmond-policy

Cookbook containing a start/stop script to associate the server with a particular server policy at startup and possibly another one at shutdown (for cloud "spot" or "autoscale" VMs)

Supported Platforms

• CentOS 5.6
• Ubuntu 14.04

It probably works on any other platform that uses init-style startup/shutdown scripts

Attributes

<table> <tr> <th>Key</th> <th>Type</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Default</th> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>[:newrelic_sysmond_policy][:installprereqs]</tt></td> <td>Boolean</td> <td>whether to install prerequisites (node.js, npm, newrelic-sysmond-policy package) via the nodejs cookbook (if false, make sure that newrelic-sysmond-policy is installed and on your path) </td> <td><tt>true</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>[:newrelic_sysmond_policy][:path]</tt></td> <td>String</td> <td>Path to newrelic-sysmond-policy (important if you are installing the prerequisites on your own) </td> <td><tt>/usr/bin/newrelic-sysmond-policy</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>[:newrelic][:apikey]</tt></td> <td>String</td> <td>NewRelic API Key. Must be set. Read more</td> <td><tt>nil</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>[:newrelic][:server_monitoring][:startup_policy]</tt></td> <td>String</td> <td>Policy to assign at startup</td> <td><tt>Default server alert policy</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td><tt>[:newrelic][:server_monitoring][:shutdown_policy]</tt></td> <td>String</td> <td>Policy to assign at shutdown. By default this will take whatever is configured as the startup policy, effectively leaving the server in the same policy at shutdown. In a dynamically provisioned environment, however, you may want to set the shutdown environment to something useful to distiguish between servers which are not reporting and servers which were intentionally deprovisioned</td> <td><tt>Takes value from [:newrelic][:server_monitoring][:startup_policy]</tt></td> </tr> </table>

Usage

newrelic-sysmond-policy::default

Include newrelic-sysmond-policy in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[newrelic-sysmond-policy::default]"
  ]
}

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (i.e. add-new-recipe)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request

License and Authors

Author:: Issac Goldstand