Nfdump Cookbook

Installs nfdump and configures nfcapd on Debian (tested on 7.6) or Ubuntu (tested on 14.04).

Requirements

Cookbooks

• runit
• chef-sugar
• apt

Platforms

The following platforms have been tested using test-kitchen

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 7.6

Attributes

• node['nfdump']['nfcapd']['datadir'] Default place to keep the nfcapd data files
• node['nfdump']['nfcapd']['piddir'] The location under which to keep PID files

Recipes

• nfdump::default Install the nfdump package
• nfdump::nfcapd Creates the default datadir and calls nfdump_nfcapd for each item in the nfcapd data bag

Resources

nfdump_nfcapd

Create an nfcapd instance under runit - See nfdump::nfcapd for a full example of use

Parameters

• name Name to identify the runit service created
• port Port for nfcapd to listen on (default 9995)
• datadir Defaults to node['nfdump']['nfcapd']['datadir'] if not specified

Actions

Actions are analogous to the same actions from the runit resource, supported actions are enable, disable, start, stop, restart.

Example

nfdump_nfcapd 'router1' do
  name 'router1'
  port 9995
  datadir '/dev/null'
  action :enable
end

License and Authors

• Author:: Paul Thomas pthomas@dyn.com

• Copyright:: 2015, Dyn Inc

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

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