puppet-hipchat

Description

A Puppet report handler for sending notifications of Puppet runs to HipChat.

Requirements

• hipchat >= 0.12.0
• puppet

Installation & Usage

1. Install the hipchat gem on your Puppet master

   $ sudo gem install hipchat
   

NOTE FOR PUPPET ENTERPRISE USERS: You must install the hipchat gem using the puppet-bundled gem library:

    $ /opt/puppet/bin/gem install hipchat

2. Install puppet-hipchat as a module in your Puppet master's module path.

3. Create a HipChat API key here with a type of Admin. Record the API key that is generated.

4. Update the hipchat_api and hipchat_room variables in the hipchat.yaml file with your hipchat connection details and copy the file to /etc/puppet/ or for puppet enterpise '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet'. An option to notify users in the room hipchat_notify defaults to false. You can also change the default notification color from yellow to red, green,purple or random. The hipchat_statuses should be an array of statuses to send notifications for and defaults to 'failed'. Specify 'all' to receive notifications from all Puppet runs. In order to send notifications through proxy server set hipchat_proxy to http proxy url using this format 'http://username:password@proxy_host:proxy_port'. If you use Puppetboard (https://github.com/nedap/puppetboard) set hipchat_puppetboard to the base URL of your Puppetboard installation, e.g. 'http://puppetboard.example.com' and a link to the node's latest report will be send with the message to hipchat. An example file is included.

5. Enable pluginsync and reports on your master and clients in puppet.conf

   [master]
   report = true
   reports = hipchat
   pluginsync = true
   [agent]
   report = true
   pluginsync = true
   

6. Run the Puppet client and sync the report as a plugin

7. To temporarially disable HipChat notifications add a file named 'hipchat_disabled' in the same path as hipchat.yaml. (Removing it will re-enable notifications)

   $ touch /etc/puppet/hipchat_disabled
   

Author

James Turnbull james@lovedthanlost.net

License

Author:: James Turnbull (<james@lovedthanlost.net>)
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 James Turnbull
License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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