Ansible Role: Logwatch

An Ansible role that installs and configures Logwatch.

Requirements

Ansible 2.10+ (uses ansible.builtin.package)

Role Variables

This role aims to provide full coverage for configuration options of Logwatch, including the ignores.conf file. Options are described in detail in both the logwatch-ignores.conf.j2 and logwatch.conf.j2 templates, as well as the defaults/main.yaml file in this role.

The main variables you are likely to care about are described below, but this is not a complete list of variables that are supported within this role. For that, see the defaults/main.yaml file.

Basic Variables

Example values for variables are all the distribution defaults except 'logwatch_disabled_services' and 'logwatch_ignores' which are empty by default, but have been populated with sample data as examples.

logwatch_mailto: root
logwatch_mailfrom: Logwatch
logwatch_format: text
logwatch_range: Yesterday
logwatch_detail: Low
logwatch_service: All
logwatch_disabled_services:
  - zz-disk_space
  - zz-lm_sensors
logwatch_ignores:
  - apparmor=\"ALLOWED\"
  - ACPI BIOS Error

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      vars:
        logwatch_mailto: kfiresmith@college.edu
        logwatch_mailfrom: logwatch-noreply
        logwatch_output: mail
        logwatch_range: yesterday
        logwatch_detail: Low
        logwatch_service: All
      roles: kfiresmith.logwatch

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Kodiak Firesmith, an ops guy at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Aside from GitHub, I'm most active on LinkedIn.

kfiresmith / ansible-role-logwatch