Chef Cookbook for Uptime Cloud Monitor services

• Chef cookbook for the Uptime Cloud Monitor collector agent and website / port probes.
• Requires a Uptime Cloud Monitor account to use. Free trial available.

Requirements

Chef 12.5 and up.
For Chef 10 to 12.4 you can use version v1.1.0

The following cookbooks are direct dependencies because they're used for common "default" functionality.
* curl(for uptime_cloud_monitor::default)

The following cookbooks are direct dependencies
* On RHEL family distros, recipe[yum::epel] might be required.
* On Ubuntu, recipe[apt::default] and recipe[curl] might be required to install and update curl.

Platform

• Any Linux 2.6+ OS, including: Ubuntu, Debian, Vyatta, RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Amazon, SuSE, openSuSE, Gentoo, and many derivatives.
• Windows

Attributes

• default['copperegg']['apikey'] = Your API Key available from the Uptime Cloud Monitor App Settings Page.
• default['copperegg']['tags'] = A comma separated list of tags to apply. Optional. Manage your tags.
• default['copperegg']['label'] = Label to apply in place of hostname when displaying in the dashboard. WARNING: If you want the same label applied to multiple systems, you may want to consider tags instead. This is most useful if you intend a recipe for a single server. Optional.
• default['copperegg']['oom_protect'] = Flag for determining if the Linux Out Of Memory manager (OOM) should be allowed to kill the RevealCloud process. Default false (allow OOM to kill the process). Optional.
• default['copperegg']['proxy'] = Proxy server required to talk to the revealcloud api servers, such as myproxy.mycorp.com:8080. Optional. Leave blank unless you know what you are doing.
• default['copperegg']['use_fqdn'] = Flag for using the fqdn as the uuid. true => Agent will be started with -U node.fqdn . Default false. Optional.
• default['copperegg']['include_node_tags'] = Propagate Chef node tags to Uptime Cloud Monitor tags. Default true.
• default['copperegg']['include_roles_astags'] = Propagate Chef node Roles to Uptime Cloud Monitor tags. Default true.
• default['copperegg']['include_env_astag'] = Propagate the Chef environment to a Uptime Cloud Monitor tag. Default true.
• default['copperegg']['annotate_chefrun_success'] = Send Uptime Cloud Monitor an annotation for each successful chef run. Default false.
• default['copperegg']['annotate_chefrun_fail'] = Send Uptime Cloud Monitor an annotation for each failed chef run. Default true.
• default['copperegg']['create_sshprobe'] = Create an external SSH probe for this node. Default false.

Collector Specific Attributes

• default['copperegg']['update_latest'] = Updates collector to latest version if any. Default true.
• default['copperegg']['uninstall_collector'] = Uninstall collector on the node. Default false.
• default['copperegg']['remove_on_uninstall'] = Uninstall collector and remove it's data from Uptime Cloud Monitor. Default false.

Usage

1. Download the Uptime Cloud Monitor cookbook into your chef-repo/cookbooks/uptime_cloud_monitor directory: (the cookbook directory name must be uptime_cloud_monitor)
2. git clone https://github.com/CopperEgg/chef-copperegg.git ./uptime_cloud_monitor, or
3. manually download from the Opscode community site http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/uptime_cloud_monitor, or
4. knife cookbook site install uptime_cloud_monitor
5. Set your apikey as described in the Attributes section.
6. edit uptime_cloud_monitor/attributes/default.rb and change YOUR_USER_API_KEY to be correct.
7. or override node['copperegg']['apikey'] within role or environment.
8. Set any other optional attributes described above, as desired.
9. Upload the cookbook to your chef server or hosted chef:
10. knife cookbook upload -a to upload all cookbooks or
11. knife cookbook upload uptime_cloud_monitor --include-dependencies
12. To install dependencies, run knife cookbook site install curl 2.0.3 and knife cookbook site install apt 3.0.0
13. Include recipe[uptime_cloud_monitor] in the run_list for all of your servers.
14. knife node run_list add NODES 'recipe[uptime_cloud_monitor]'
15. Run chef-client on your nodes in whatever manner suits you, such as sudo chef-client or a batch job.
16. View your systems within 10 seconds in the RevealCloud App

Creating and managing website and port probes

1. The Uptime Cloud Monitor Cookbook contains a LightWeight Resource Provider (LWRP) for simplifying the automation of Uptime Cloud Monitor probes.
2. To create a Uptime Cloud Monitor probe, you need to include something similar to the following example:

  uptime_cloud_monitor_probe "ChefProbe2" do
    probe_desc 'ChefProbe2'               # the 'name' of the probe
    probe_dest "http://yoursite.com"      # the URL to test
    type 'GET'                            # the test type; in this case, an HTTP GET request
    stations ['dal','nrk']                # override the defaults and specify testing from Dallas and Fremont
    tags ["production",'load_balancer']   # The tags to apply to this probe
    action :update                        # update will create or updatee
  end

1. You can find descriptions of all required and optional fields in uptime_cloud_monitor/resources/probe.rb.
2. Refer to the Probe section of the Uptime Cloud Monitor API for further details: Uptime Cloud Monitor Probe API

Creating Annotations in the Uptime Cloud Monitor UI for chef run events.

The Uptime Cloud Monitor Cookbook includes integration with the Chef Report and Exception
Handlers. To enable this functionality choose one of the following:
* Include the recipe copperegg-handler.rb in your run_list, or
* Include the recipe copperegg-handler in your application cookbook with
include_recipe.

That's it!

Note:
* By default, each chef run will create an annotation at Uptime Cloud Monitor only when the chef run fails.
* You can change this behavior by changing the ['copperegg']['annotate_chefrun_success'] and ['copperegg']['annotate_chefrun_fail'] attributes in the default attributes file or by overriding them in your application cookbook.

Links

• Uptime Cloud Monitor Homepage
• Uptime Cloud Monitor Signup
• Uptime Cloud Monitor Login

License and Author

Authors:: Ross Dickey, Scott Johnson
With Contributions from Drew Oliner (https://github.com/Drewzar)

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