teomandi / deploy_collectd

Collectd installation ansible playbook

mist.io monitoring playbooks

This repo contains all the ansible playbooks and scripts used by mist.io to enable server monitoring.

Currently supported distros are recent versions of:

• Debian based distros: Tested with debian and ubuntu
• RedHat based distros: Tested with Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon
• Suse based distros: Tested with Suse, openSuse
• FreeBSD

ansible/enable.yml

Installs collectd on the target machines for mist.io monitoring.

Params:

• uuid: machine unique identifier assigned by mist.io. Required.
• password: machine password to encrypt collectd traffic, assigned by mist.io. Required.
• monitor: monitor server host/ip where collectd will send data to. Optional, defaults to monitor1.mist.io.
• hosts: Run the playbook on machines found in the inventory file, matching hosts. Optional, defaults to all.

ansible/disable.yml

Disables mist.io monitoring on tharget machines by stopping collectd and removing any relevant cronjobs.

Params:

• hosts: Run the playbook on machines found in the inventory file, matching hosts. Optional, defaults to all.

local_run.py

Enables mist.io monitoring on localhost. It will create a temporary directory and set up a virtualenv with all required dependencies in order to enable monitoring.

usage: local_run.py [-h] [-m MONITOR_SERVER] [--no-check-certificate]
                    uuid password

Deploy mist.io CollectD on localhost.

positional arguments:
  uuid                  Machine uuid assigned by mist.io.
  password              Machine password assigned by mist.io, used to
                        sign/encrypt CollectD data.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -m MONITOR_SERVER, --monitor-server MONITOR_SERVER
                        Remote CollectD server to send data to.
                        (default: monitor1.mist.io)
  --no-check-certificate
                        Don't verify SSL certificates when fetching
                        dependencies from HTTPS. (default: False)