stale-node-checker-cookbook

Checks your Chef cluster for any nodes that haven't checked in recently and sends an alert if there are any.

Supported Platforms

Tested on Ubuntu but isn't particularly platform specific.

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['stale-node-checker']['threshold']['days']/['stale-node-checker']['threshold']['hours']/['stale-node-checker']['threshold']['minutes']</tt></td>
<td>Integer</td>
<td>Days/Hours/Minutes that a server has to be out of touch before an alert is triggered</td>
<td><tt>0/1/0 days/hours/minutes</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['stale-node-checker']['max-nodes']</tt></td>
<td>Integer</td>
<td>Maximum number of nodes to bother including in the alert</td>
<td><tt>2500</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['stale-node-checker']['ignore']</tt></td>
<td>Array</td>
<td>The FULL node name of any nodes to ignore</td>
<td><tt>Empty</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['stale-node-checker']['alert-email']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Where to send the alerts</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Usage

stale-node-checker::default

Include stale-node-checker in a wrapper cookbook or role.

License and Authors

Author:: EverTrue, Inc. (eric.herot@evertrue.com)