scootklein / chef-scout

A chef cookbook for installing the scout agent

chef-scout

Installs the agent for Scout, a hosted server monitoring service. This recipe:

• Installs the Scout Ruby gem
• Configures a Cron job to run the monitoring agent

Supported Platforms

The following platforms are supported by this cookbook, meaning that the recipes run on these platforms without error:

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Red Hat
• CentOS
• Fedora
• Scientific
• Amazon

Recipes

• scout - The default recipe.

Required Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default Value
[:scout][:key]	The agent requires a Scout account and the account's associated key. The key can be found in the account settings tab within the Scout UI or in the server setup instructions. The key looks like: 0mZ6BD9DR0qyZjaBLCPZZWkW3n2Wn7DV9xp5gQPs	nil

If the [:scout][:key] attribute is not provided or the scout executable is not found, the Cron job won't be installed but all other parts of the recipe will execute.

Optional Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default Value
[:scout][:user]	User to run the Scout agent under. Will be created if it does not exist.	scout
[:scout][:group]	User group to run the Scout agent under. Will be created if it does not exist.	scout
[:scout][:name]	Optional name to display for this node within the Scout UI.	nil
[:scout][:roles]	An Array of roles for this node. Roles are defined through Scout's UI.	nil
[:scout][:scout_bin]	The full path to the scout gem executable. When nil, this is discovered via Gem#bindir.	nil
[:scout][:version]	Gem version to install. nil installs the latest release.	nil
[:scout][:public_key]	If you use self-signed custom plugins, set this attribute to the public key value and it'll be installed on the node.	nil

Questions?

Contact Scout ([email protected]) with any questions, suggestions, bugs, etc.

Authors and License

Additions, Modifications, & Updates:

Author: Derek Haynes ([email protected]) Copyright: 2013, Scout https://github.com/scoutapp/chef-scout

Author: Drew Blas ([email protected]) Copyright: 2012, Drew Blas https://github.com/drewblas/chef-scout_agent

Originally:

Author: Seth Chisamore ([email protected]) Copyright: 2010, Seth Chisamore https://github.com/schisamo/chef_cookbooks

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

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.