Smokeping Cookbook

Installs and configures the SmokePing server and fping service

SmokePing: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

fping http://fping.sourceforge.net/

Requirements

Platform

• Ubuntu 10.04 / Ubuntu 12.04
• Debian

Chef Cookbooks

• Apache cookbook
• Perl cookbook

Attributes

default['smokeping']['site_remark_owner'] = 'Some Company'
default['smokeping']['admin_name']  = '<admin name>'
default['smokeping']['admin_email']  = '<admin email>'
default['smokeping']['alert_email']  = '<alert email>'

Usage

Apply the recipe to a the nodes runlist and run Chef

Hardcoding Targets

If you would like to add a couple machines, open up templates/default/Targets.erb and add something like the following before the datacenter parsing.

+ Public                                                                                           
menu = Public                                                           
title = Public

++ somehost
host = somehost.mydomain.net