chef-newrelic-sysmond

Description

Installs newrelic-sysmond, New Relic for Server Monitoring.

Requirements

Chef

This cookbook requires Chef >= 11.13 due to the use of the sensitive attribute for some resources.

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are direct dependencies:

• apt (for Debian and Ubuntu)
• yum (for RHEL and CentOS)

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 6
• CentOS 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["newrelic-sysmond"]["package_action"] = "install"  # or `upgrade`
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["apt_uri"]        = "http://apt.newrelic.com/debian/"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["apt_key"]        = "548C16BF"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["keyserver"]      = "hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["yum_baseurl"]    = "https://yum.newrelic.com/pub/newrelic/el5/#{node["kernel"]["machine"]}"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["license_key"]    = ""
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["loglevel"]       = "info"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["logfile"]        = "/var/log/newrelic/nrsysmond.log"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["proxy"]          = ""
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["ssl"]            = "true"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["ssl_ca_bundle"]  = ""
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["ssl_ca_path"]    = ""
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["pidfile"]        = "/var/run/newrelic/nrsysmond.pid"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["collector_host"] = "collector.newrelic.com"
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["timeout"]        = 30
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["hostname"]       = ""
default["newrelic-sysmond"]["labels"]         = ""

Basic Settings

You must set the value for node["newrelic-sysmond"]["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
• @apai4
  • add 64bit yum repo support
• @jhsu
  • add apt_uri and apt_key attributes
• @jolexa
  • add yum_baseurl 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/