Chef defines for monitoring: store in definitions/monitored.rb

monitored.rb

#
# Cookbook Name:: monitored

define :monitored, :additional_params => {} do

  if ! params[:depends].is_a?(Array) && params[:depends] != nil
    raise "Depends must be an array (#{params[:depends].inspect})" 
  end

  doc = {}.merge(params[:additional_params])
  params.each do |k,v|
    next if k == :name
    next if k == :additional_params
    doc[k.to_s] = v if v != nil
  end

  current_key = node[:monitored][:next]
  node[:monitored][:content][current_key][params[:name]] = doc

end

  
define :passive_monitored  do
  doc = {}
  params.each do |k,v|
    next if k == :name 
    doc[k.to_s] = v if v != nil
  end

  monitored params[:name] do
    passive true
    additional_params doc
  end
end