portertech/chef-monitor — pull request #1 by jschneiderhan (2012-12-05 20:26:59+00:00)
Title: Allow to specofy that you would like to use local_ipv4 instead of

Added a ["monitor"]["use_local_ipv4"] attribute which defaults to false. I have my AWS security group for my sensu server setup so that it only allows rabbitmq connections from particular security groups. When the public IP is used it seems to be filtering all traffic regardless of origin (which makes sense).