chef_usage_per_org

Research on hacking to get usage per org

list of orgs

pull down the pivotal user pem from the Chef Server

Example:

ssh -i "/path/to/your.pem" ubuntu@host
cd ~
sudo cp /etc/opscode/pivotal.pem .
sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu pivotal.pem
ll ~
exit
cd ~/.chef
scp -i "/path/to/your.pem" ubuntu@host:/home/ubuntu/pivotal.pem 
# be careful, but clean up the copy
# ssh -i "/path/to/your.pem" ubuntu@host
# rm -rf pivotal.pem

Install knife-opc

See: https://github.com/chef/knife-opc

Update your knife.rb to have:

node_name                'pivotal'
client_key               '~/.chef/pivotal.pem'

run

knife opc org list -a

On Chef Server

sudo chef-server-ctl org-list

On knife workstation

With pivotal user may be able to use:

knife exec -E 'p api.get("/organizations" )' -s https://chef.yourorg.com

If you are not the pivotal user

ERROR: You authenticated successfully to https://chef.yourorg.com as <username> but you are not authorized for this action
Response:  missing create permission

count of nodes per organization

Iterate through a file created from the above list of orgs

From knife workstation:

while read p; do                                                                           
echo $p
echo "knife exec -E 'p api.get(\"/organizations/$p/nodes\").size' -s https://chef.yourorg.com" | bash
done <org_list

or simply run:

./org_usage.sh 

if you want to send to slack then:

./org_usage.sh "https://hooks.slack.com/services/<your token>" "https://chef.yourorg.com" "channel" "username"