Friday, July 5, 2013

Oh Windows...

One thing that makes me sad regularly is that we have Windows instances. Lots of them. And they are important.

Sensu does support Windows, but the documentation is sparse. You pretty much have to either use their Chef cookbook or read it to get the steps required to install the client.

Similarly, go visit the Sensu Community Plugins project and see how many of them cat /proc/somethingorother to get data. No Windows for you!

I ended up writing a couple of Ruby scripts that would get lists of processes, system load and the like on both Linux and Windows platforms. I need to clean them up a bit then submit them back to the project.

It wasn't hard to do, but it is a thing to be aware of if you go down this road.

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