The guys at Opscode recently released ohai and Chef. ohai "Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON" and "Chef is a systems management framework masquerading as a configuration management tool." Ezra Zygmuntowicz explains the details over here. I decided to check out ohai today here's what I came up with.
First, just for fun I wrote a little rack server that serves up the JSON that ohai produces.
require 'rubygems' require 'rack' class OhaiRack def call(env) data = IO.popen("ohai") info = data.readlines [200, {"Content-Type"=>"text/plain"}, ["#{info.join}"]] end end app = Rack::Builder.new { use Rack::CommonLogger, STDERR run OhaiRack.new }.to_app server = Rack::Handler::Mongrel options = {:Host => "127.0.0.1", :Port => 3000} server.run app, optionsI also wrote a erlang plugin so that ohai can get the version and details about your erlang installation. I put the following code in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-0.1.2/lib/ohai/plugins/erlang.rb, your location may be different depending on your ruby and/or gems installation location.
require_plugin "languages" require "open3" languages[:erlang] = Mash.new stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('erl +V') output = stderr.gets info = output.split languages[:erlang][:version] = info[5] languages[:erlang][:options] = info[1] languages[:erlang][:emulator] = info[2]The output should look something like:
"erlang": { "name": "Erlang", "version": "5.6.5", "emulator": "(BEAM)", "options": "(SMP,ASYNC_THREADS,HIPE)"Anywho, kinda fun and worth checking out, especially if you are working on the cloud.
