Description

This cookbook provides an easy way to install various New Relic agents and the New Relic server monitor.

More information?

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/newrelic-plugin-agent
• https://github.com/MeetMe/newrelic-plugin-agent#installation-instructions

Requirements

Chef version:

Make sure you run Chef >= 0.10.0.

Cookbooks:

• python

Platforms:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• RHEL
• CentOS
• Fedora
• Scientific
• Amazon
• Windows
• SmartOS

Attributes

default.rb:

• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['license'] - Your New Relic license key. Default is nil
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['python_recipe'] - The python recipe to include, defaults to 'python::pip'
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['python_pip_action'] - The action on pip, defaults to 'install'
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['python_pip_version'] - The pip version to action, defaults to 'latest'
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['python_pip_venv'] - The pip virtual environment, optional
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['service_name'] - The New Relic MeetMe plugin service name, defaults to 'newrelic-plugin-agent'
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['service_actions'] - The New Relic MeetMe plugin service actions, defaults to "[:enable, :start]" (#starts the service if it's not running and enables it to start at system boot time)
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['wake_interval'] - The New Relic plugin agent wake interval, defaults to 60
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['proxy'] - The New Relic plugin agent proxy, optional
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['services'] - A hash of New Relic MeetMe plugin services, defaults to nil

eg.

{
  'memcached' => {
    'name' => 'localhost',
    'host' => 'host',
    'port' => 11211
  },
  'redis' => [
    {
      'name' => 'localhost',
      'host' => 'localhost',
      'port' => 6379,
      'db_count' => 16,
      'password' => 'foobar'
    },
    {
      'name' => 'localhost',
      'host' => 'localhost',
      'port' => 6380,
      'db_count' => 16,
      'password' => 'foobar'
    }
  ]
}

• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['config_file'] - The New Relic plugin agent config file, defaults to "/etc/newrelic/newrelic-plugin-agent.cfg"
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['pid_file'] - The New Relic plugin agent PID file name, defaults to "/var/run/newrelic/newrelic-plugin-agent.pid"
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['log_file'] - The New Relic plugin agent log file name, defaults to "/var/log/newrelic/newrelic-plugin-agent.log"
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['user'] - The New Relic plugin agent user, defaults to "newrelic". This user is not created by the cookbook or the PyPi package, so the default value will cause the plugin agent to fail if the newrelic user does not exist.
• node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['additional_requirements'] - The New Relic plugin agent's additional requirements, eg. {"mongodb", "pgbouncer", "postgresql"} - defaults to {}

Usage

1. include recipe[newrelic_meetme_plugin]
2. change the node['newrelic_meetme_plugin']['license'] attribute to your New Relic license key --- OR --- override the attributes on a higher level (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes#Attributes-AttributesPrecedence)

License and Authors

Author: David Joos david.joos@escapestudios.com Author: Escape Studios Development dev@escapestudios.com Copyright: 2014, Escape Studios

Unless otherwise noted, all files are released under the MIT license, possible exceptions will contain licensing information in them.

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