chef-reporting

This gem was used for versions of Chef older than 11.6.0, which are no longer supported. Archiving.

This gem contains an event handler for Chef that allows older (< 11.6.0) version of chef to publish reporting information to Opscode Hosted Chef or Opscode Private Chef.

There are 2 different methods on how to install the handler:

The chef-client cookbook is able to automatically install and configure gems used for start and event handlers:

node.set['chef_client']['load_gems']['chef-reporting'] = {
    :require_name => 'chef_reporting',
    :action => :install
}

node.set['chef_client']['start_handlers'] = [
    {
        :class => "Chef::Reporting::StartHandler",
        :arguments => []
    }
]
include_recipe "chef-client::config"

You can also do the same configuration e.g. as part of your bootstrap process if you want to have the first client run on the host send data to reporting.

The chef-reporting gem is required to be loaded. You can do this is a gem install before running Chef if you want the first client run to report or else use the chef_gem resource to install the gem on first chef-client run.

chef_gem "chef-reporting" do
  action :install
end

The Event Handler should be configured in your client.rb to enable the handler. Copy the following block to the top of your client.rb.

begin
  require 'chef_reporting'
  start_handlers << Chef::Reporting::StartHandler.new()
rescue LoadError
  Chef::Log.warn "Failed to load #{lib}. This should be resolved after a chef run."
end

Chef Reporting - A client library for Chef Reporting features