collectd

Install collectd package.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 2.4 or higher, and platform requirements are listed in the metadata file.

Testing

This role use Molecule to run tests.

Local and Travis tests run tests on Docker by default. See molecule documentation to use other backend.

Currently, tests are done on:

• Debian Stretch
• Ubuntu Xenial
• Ubuntu Bionic

and use:

• Ansible 2.4.x
• Ansible 2.5.x
• Ansible 2.6.x
• Ansible 2.7.x

Running tests

Automatically with Travis

Tests runs automatically on Travis on push, release, pr, ... using docker testing containers

Using Docker driver

$ tox

Role Variables

Default role variables

# Repositories management
collectd_use_additional_repository: "{{ _collectd_use_additional_repository }}"
collectd_repository_cache_valid_time: 3600
collectd_repository_component: "{{ _collectd_repository_component }}"
collectd_repository_update_cache: True
collectd_repositories: "{{ _collectd_repositories | default([]) }}"
collectd_repositories_keys: "{{ _collectd_repositories_keys | default([]) }}"


# Packages management
collectd_packages: "{{ _collectd_packages }}"
collectd_plugins_dependencies: "{{ _collectd_plugins_dependencies | default([]) }}"
collectd_system_dependencies: "{{ _collectd_system_dependencies | default([]) }}"


# Service management
collectd_service_name: "{{ _collectd_service_name }}"
collectd_service_enabled: True
collectd_service_state: 'started'


# Custom types
collectd_custom_types: {}
collectd_custom_types_file_path: '/etc/collectd/my_types.db'


# Nework server auth data
collectd_network_server_auth_data: {}
collectd_network_auth_file_path: '/etc/collectd/network_server_auth.db'


# Main configuration
collectd_static_hostname: 'true'
collectd_hostname: "{{ ansible_hostname }}"
collectd_fqdn_lookup: 'true'
collectd_base_dir: '/var/lib/collectd'
collectd_plugin_dir: '/usr/lib/collectd'
collectd_types_db:
  - '"/usr/share/collectd/types.db"'
  - '"{{ collectd_custom_types_file_path }}"'

collectd_auto_load_plugin: 'false'
collectd_interval: 10
collectd_timeout: 2
colectd_read_threads: 5
colectd_write_threads: 5

collectd_write_queue_limit_high: False
collectd_write_queue_limit_low: False


# Logging plugins management
collectd_logging_plugins: "{{
  collectd_logging_plugins_config | map(attribute='name') | list }}"

collectd_logging_plugins_config:
  - name: 'syslog'
    activate_entries: []
    config_entries:
      - 'LogLevel info'


# Plugins management
collectd_plugins: "{{
  collectd_plugins_config | map(attribute='name') | list }}"

collectd_plugins_with_dependencies: "{{
  collectd_plugins_dependencies.keys()
  | intersect(collectd_plugins) }}"

collectd_plugins_config: "{{
  collectd_base_plugins_config | union(collectd_extra_plugins_config) }}"

collectd_base_plugins_config:
  - name: 'df'
    config_entries:
      - 'FSType rootfs'
      - 'FSType sysfs'
      - 'FSType proc'
      - 'FSType devtmpfs'
      - 'FSType devpts'
      - 'FSType tmpfs'
      - 'FSType fusectl'
      - 'FSType cgroup'
      - 'IgnoreSelected true'
  - name: 'disk'
  - name: 'entropy'
  - name: 'interface'
  - name: 'irq'
  - name: 'load'
  - name: 'memory'
  - name: 'processes'
  - name: 'rrdtool'
    config_entries:
      - 'DataDir "/var/lib/collectd/rrd"'
  - name: 'swap'
  - name: 'users'

collectd_extra_plugins_config: []


# Logrotate configuration
collectd_log_dir_path: '/var/log/collectd'
collectd_logrotate_managed: False
collectd_logrotate_file_path: '/etc/logrotate.d/collectd'
collectd_logrotate_file_owner: 'root'
collectd_logrotate_file_group: 'root'
collectd_logrotate_file_mode: '0644'
collectd_logrotate_pattern: "{{ collectd_log_dir_path ~ '/*.log' }}"
collectd_logrotate_options:
  - 'rotate 7'
  - 'daily'
  - 'compress'
  - 'delaycompress'
  - 'missingok'
  - "create 640 root root"

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: Temelio.collectd }

License

MIT

Author Information

upgrade: Lise Machetel (for Temelio Company) Alexandre Chaussier (for Temelio company)

• http://www.temelio.com