Loading Custom Ohai Plugins

Handy Hint As an example, you can find a custom plugin that extends virtualization attribute adding a guest_lists sub-attribute here: http://github.com/rubiojr/ohai-plugins/blob/master/virtualization_extensions.rb

If you want to add custom/unofficial Ohai plugins to a Chef client:

1. Edit /etc/chef/client.rb
2. Add the following line to the end of the file: You can choose any path you want.
3. Add your custom plugins there (e.g. /etc/ohai/plugins)
4. Test your plugins with ohai

   Because of OHAI-126 you must NOT use a trailing slash with 'ohai -d /etc/ohai/plugins'

5. Reload the client:

   
   
   
   
   
   

Writing Ohai Plugins

Distributing Ohai Plugins