Ansible role : VMware exporter

Installs and configures VMware exporter, an exporter used by Prometheus.

Requirements

No special requirements; note that this role requires root access, so has to be ran with become: yes

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

vmware_exporter_port: 9272

The port on which the vmware_exporter http endpoint will be published.

vmware_exporter_targets: []

This variable contains a list of sections (vsphere hosts) that the vmware_exporter will connect to. It is based on the configuration file of the VMware exporter, so please refer to that before setting this variable.

Examples are provided below in 'Example Playbook' or in defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

geerlingguy.repo-epel if you're using CentOS or a Red Hat derivative.

Example Playbook

- hosts: vmware_exporter_servers
  become: yes
  vars:
    vmware_exporter_targets:
      - default:
          vsphere_host: "vcenter"
          vsphere_user: "user"
          vsphere_password: "password"
          ignore_ssl: False
          collect_only:
            vms: True
            snapshots: True
            vmguests: True
            datastores: True
            hosts: True
      - limited:
          vsphere_host: "slowvc.example.com"
          vsphere_user: "administrator@vsphere.local"
          vsphere_password: "password"
          ignore_ssl: True
          collect_only:
            vms: False
            snapshots: False
            vmguests: False
            datastores: True
            hosts: False

  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.repo-epel
      when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
    - scalair.vmware_exporter

License

Apache License 2.0

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Julien Delvecchio.

norrland / ansible-vmware-exporter