CopperEgg RevealCloud Agent

• Chef cookbook for the RevealCloud collector agent.
• Requires a CopperEgg account to use. Free trial available.

Requirements

bash

Platform

• Any Linux 2.6+ OS, including: Ubuntu, Debian, Vyatta, RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Amazon, SuSE, openSuSE, Gentoo, and many derivatives.
• FreeBSD 7.x+

Attributes

• default[:copperegg][:apikey] = Your API Key available from the RevealCloud 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][: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.

Usage

1. Download into your chef-repo, either manually from the community chef webpage or:

• knife cookbook site download revealcloud

2. Set your apikey as described in the Attributes section.

• edit revealcloud/attributes/default.rb and change YOUR_USER_API_KEY to be correct.

3. Set any other optional attributes described above, as desired.
4. Upload the cookbook to your chef server or hosted chef:

• knife cookbook upload -a -o revealcloud

5. Include recipe[revealcloud] in the run_list for all of your servers.

• knife node run_list add NODES 'recipe[revealcloud]'

6. Run chef-client on your nodes in whatever manner suits you, such as sudo chef-client or a batch job.
7. View your systems within 10 seconds in the RevealCloud App

Links

• CopperEgg Homepage
• RevealCloud Signup
• RevealCloud Login

License and Author

Author:: Ross Dickey

Copyright 2012, CopperEgg, Inc.

No License. Redistribution encouraged.