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- http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Package+Installation+on+Debian+and+Ubuntu**
- just install "chef" package, chef-server not needed since we use opscode's
- http://help.opscode.com/kb/start/2-setting-up-your-user-environment (scroll down to section Create your Chef repository)
- organization key is in vault directory as mifos-validator.pem.cpt (same password as the password vault)
- when setting up your chef env if you lost your client key or want to generate a new one go to this (replace with your username): http://community.opscode.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME/ (be sure to login again if you don't see the "get private key" link)
- create
~/.chef/knife.rb. Here's a template:No Format # Replace USERNAME, ORGANIZATION with yours current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__) log_level :info log_location STDOUT node_name "USERNAME" client_key "#{current_dir}/USERNAME.pem" validation_client_name "ORGANIZATION-validator" validation_key "#{current_dir}/ORGANIZATION-validator.pem" chef_server_url "https://api.opscode.com/organizations/ORGANIZATION" cache_type 'BasicFile' cache_options( :path => "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/checksums" ) # Customize as necessary. Mifos cookbooks are in the cloud git # repository, under chef/cookbooks. Multiple paths are allowed. cookbook_path ["#{ENV['HOME']}/git/mifos-cloud/chef/cookbooks"] - Copy the keys and knife configuration you downloaded earlier into
~/.chef:No Format $ mkdir -p ~/.chef $ cp USERNAME.pem ~/.chef $ cp ORGANIZATION-validator.pem ~/.chef $ cp knife.rb ~/.chef
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- Monitoring server: https://cloudboss.mifos.org/opennms/ (also see Monitoring Severs With OpenNMS)
- overview of what's running where and current status**
- also see "knife status --run-list"
- outage notifications are sent to the mifos-adm google group
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