Xymon

1. Overview
2. Role Variables
   • OS Specific Variables
3. Example Playbook
4. Configuration
5. Development
6. License
7. Author Information

Overview

Manage Xymon (client) installation and configuration.

Role Variables

• xymon_cli_manage : If xymon-client should be managed with this role [default : true].
• xymon_cli_pkg_state : State of new xymon-client package(s) [default : installed].
• xymon_cli_default_conf_path : Configuration file for xymon-client [default : /etc/default/xymon-client].
• xymon_cli_default_conf_tpl : Template used to generate the previous config file [default : etc/default/xymon-client.j2].
• xymon_cli_hostname : Allow to override default value of CLIENTHOSTNAME var [default : {{ ansible_fqdn }}].
• xymon_cli_service_manage : If xymon-client service should be managed with this role [default : true].
• xymon_cli_service_name : xymon-client service name [default : xymon-client].
• xymon_cli_service_enabled : Set xymon-client service available at startup [default : true].

OS Specific Variables

Please see default value by Operating System file in vars directory.

• xymon_cli_pkg_list : The list of packages to install to provide xymon-client.

Example Playbook

• Use defaults vars :

- hosts: serverXYZ
  roles:
    - role: ipr-cnrs.xymon

Configuration

This role will :

• Install needed packages to provide xymon-client.
• Manage xymon-client configuration and service.

Development

This source code comes from our Gogs instance and the Github repo exist just to be able to send the role to Ansible Galaxy…

But feel free to send issue/PR here :)

Thanks to this hook, Github automatically got updates from our Gogs instance :)

License

WTFPL

Author Information

Jérémy Gardais

• Source : on IPR's Gogs
• IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)