chef-expander

• Documentation: http://docs.opscode.com/
• Tickets/Issues: http://tickets.opscode.com
• IRC: #chef and #chef-hacking on Freenode
• Mailing list: http://lists.opscode.com

Overview

Chef Expander replaces the chef-solr-indexer daemon that was included with Chef 0.8 and 0.9.

Dependencies

• bunny
• yajl
• eventmachine
• em-http-request
• amqp
• highline

Monitoring With Nagios

A Nagios plugin to monitor queue backlog is included in scripts/ directory as check_queue_size.

To run it with the warning threshold at 250 messages and critical at 500 messages:

check_queue_size -w 250 -c 500

Contributing/Development

Before working on the code, if you plan to contribute your changes, you need to read the Opscode Contributing document.

You will also need to set up the repository with the appropriate branches. We document the process on the Working with Git page of the Chef wiki.

Reporting Bugs

You can search for known issues in Opscode Chef's bug tracker. Tickets should be filed under the CHEF project with the component set to "Chef Server".

License

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.