Description

An IRC bot that provides information about an autonomous CFEngine node.

The word tad means world in sanskrit.

Features:

Reads reports created by the vacana lib report bundles
- Host info report
- Classes
- Promises
Search classes and promises
Watch report file for changes and get notified about it
Notify about repaired and failed promises at a given interval

Installation

Binary

TODO

Source

git clone https://github.com/smotti/cfengine-tad.git
cd cfengine-tad
make

The above will compile the bot and build a binary named tad, which you then can drop where you like.

Usage

Usage of ./tad:
  -chan="#tad": Channels to join
  -classes="./data/classes.log": Path to classes report
  -config="": Path to ini config for using in go flags. May be relative to the current executable path.
  -configUpdateInterval=0: Update interval for re-reading config file set via -config flag. Zero disables config file re-reading.
  -dumpflags=false: Dumps values for all flags defined in the app into stdout in ini-compatible syntax and terminates the app.
  -hostInfo="./data/va_host_info_report.json": Path to host info report
  -listenChannel=false: Listen for command on public channels
  -name="tad": Nick to use in IRC
  -notifyFailed=true: Notify about failed promises
  -notifyInterval=5m0s: Interval on when to notify about repaired and/or failed promises
  -notifyRepaired=true: Notify about repaired promises
  -promises="./data/promises_outcome.log": Path to promises report
  -server="127.0.0.1:6668": Host:Port to connect to
  -ssl=false: Use SSL/TLS
  -watchInterval=1s: Interval when to check files in watch dir (in seconds)

All flags can also be specified within an ini-file and provided to the bot via the -config flag. NOTE: That by default the bot only responds to commands send via private query.

Commands

!os
- Display the following data about the hosts OS: arch, flavor, os, release, uptime, version
!cfe
- Display data about the hosts CFEngine installation: bootstrappedTo, lastAgentRun, policyLastUpdate, policyReleaseId
!id
- Display data about the host's identity: fqdn (fully quallified domain name), id (md5 calculated by cfengine), uqdn (unique quallified domain name)
!net if
- Display the host's network interface with: ipv4 (address), flags, mac, name
!net ports
- Display a list of listening ports: inet (ipv4 or ipv6), port, protocol
- Note currently only tcp ports are listed because cfengine seems to have problems with fetching a list of udp ports
!sw
- Display a list of all installed packages: arch, method, name, version
- NOTE: This list can be quite large
!sw
- Search for software packages by name that match the pattern
!cl
- Display a list of classes defined during the last run
!cl
- Search for classes that match the pattern
!p
- Display a list of promises: class, handler, promiser, promisee, outcome
!p
- Search promises for pattern, it will search all fields for the pattern

smotti / cfengine-tad