Nagios is one of the most widely spread monitoring packages available. Chef provides you with a cookbook to install a Nagios server, as well as Nagios clients. It provides ways to configure service checks, service groups and so on, using data bags instead of manually editing Nagios configuration files.
Make sure that you have a cookbook named my_cookbook
and that the run_list
of your node includes my_cookbook
, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks recipe in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure:
Create your
Berksfile
in your Chef repository including the nagios cookbook:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl Berksfile
cookbook 'resource-control' cookbook 'nagios'
Install the
nagios
cookbook:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ berks install
Using nagios (7.0.2) ...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...
Upload the
nagios
cookbook to the Chef server:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ berks upload
...TRUNCATED OUTPUT... Uploading nagios (7.0.2) to: 'https://api.chef.io:443/organizations...