Smokeping Cookbook

Installs and configures the SmokePing server and fping service

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

fping http://fping.org/

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu

Chef

• Chef 12.7+

Cookbooks

• apache2
• perl

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

The right way to use this cookbook is to create a new site-specific cookbook that look up the needed data and pass them to this cookbook via the Target provider.

Using the Target provider

  # Expected data structure
   data = {
     "name" => "Production"
      nodes => ["nodea", "nodeb"],
      slaves => ["nodeb"]
   }

   smokeping_target "name" do
   action :create
   variables(
      :data => data
      )
   end

Apply the recipe to a the nodes runlist and run Chef

License & Authors

Author: Tim Smith (tsmith@chef.io)

Copyright: 2013-2015, Limelight Networks, Inc. Copyright: 2016, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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