First Recipe. Creates the empty monitoring registry and also store the new key

firstrecipe.rb

# This recipe should be called at the beginning of the run_list
# If we are not the last item of the run_list break

order = node.recipes

if order[0] != "firstrecipe"
  Chef::Log.error("First Recipe should be the first recipe to run; current run list is "+order.inspect)
  raise "Please refactor my runlist"
end


# Generate Timestamp for next version of monitored objects
# .to_s because chef is a monkey !
next_key = Time.now.to_i.to_s

node[:monitored] ||= {}
node[:monitored][:content] ||= {}

node[:monitored][:next] = next_key  
node[:monitored][:content][next_key] = {}