chef-newrelic-sysmond

Description

Installs newrelic-sysmond, New Relic for Server Monitoring.

Requirements

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are direct dependencies:

• apt (for Debian and Ubuntu)

Supported Platforms

The following platforms are supported by this cookbook, meaning that the recipes run on these platforms without error:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & 6
• CentOS 5 & 6

Recipes

• newrelic-sysmond - The default recipe.

Usage

This cookbook installs the newrelic-sysmond components if not present, and pulls updates if they are installed on the system.

Attributes

default["new_relic"]["keyserver"]      = "keyserver.ubuntu.com"
default["new_relic"]["license_key"]    = ""
default["new_relic"]["loglevel"]       = "info"
default["new_relic"]["logfile"]        = "/var/log/newrelic/nrsysmond.log"
default["new_relic"]["proxy"]          = ""
default["new_relic"]["ssl"]            = "false"
default["new_relic"]["ssl_ca_bundle"]  = ""
default["new_relic"]["ssl_ca_path"]    = ""
default["new_relic"]["pidfile"]        = ""
default["new_relic"]["collector_host"] = "collector.newrelic.com"
default["new_relic"]["timeout"]        = 30
default["new_relic"]["hostname"]       = ""

Basic Settings

You must set the value for node["new_relic"]["license_key"]

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Contributors

Many thanks go to the following contributors who have helped to make this cookbook even better:

• @dwradcliffe
  • add support for redhat/centos
• @fredjean
  • fix default keyserver host name
• @joe1chen
  • add apt dependency to metadata
• @CloCkWeRX
  • initial implementation of hostname attribute

License

chef-newrelic-sysmond

• Freely distributable and licensed under the MIT license.
• Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Phil Cohen (github@phlippers.net)
• http://phlippers.net/