puppet-hipchat

Description

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

Requirements

• hipchat
• puppet

Installation & Usage

1. Install the hipchat gem on your Puppet master

   $ sudo 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/. An option to notify users in the room hipchat_notify defaults to false. 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

Author

James Turnbull [email protected]

License

Author:: James Turnbull (<[email protected]>)
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 James Turnbull
License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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

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