Foreman Monitoring Plugin
This is a Foreman plugin for monitoring system integration. It allows to manage hosts and downtimes and to display status information from the monitoring solution.
It requires the Smart Proxy plugin monitoring for communication with the monitoring system. See its documentation for supported monitoring solutions and detailed configuration instructions.
Installation
See How_to_Install_a_Plugin for how to install Foreman plugins.
The gem name is foreman_monitoring.
RPM users can install the tfm-rubygem-foreman_monitoring package.
Deb users can install the ruby-foreman-monitoring package.
If using the gem as installation source database enhancement and service restart must be done manually.
foreman-rake db:migrate
foreman-rake db:seed
touch ~foreman/tmp/restart.txt
Compatibility
| Foreman Version | Plugin Version |
|---|---|
| >= 1.15 | ~> 0.1 |
| >= 1.17 | ~> 1.0 |
| >= 2.0 | ~> 2.0 |
| >= 2.2 | ~> 2.1 |
| >= 3.0 | ~> 3.0 |
| >= 3.6 | ~> 3.1 |
Usage
For managing a host in the monitoring solution a Smart Proxy providing
the monitoring feature has to be assigned. This can be done during
provisioning or as a bulk action from the host overview.
You can configure the default action which will be done during host provisioning and de-provisioning. Provisioning allows to create a monitoring object or take no action while de-provisoning allows deleting the monitoring object, set a downtime or take no action. For rebuild, it will by default set a downtime.
The plugin will show you the monitoring status as a sub-status and a detail panel. You can configure if the sub-status should affect the global status.
Furthermore, it allows to individually set a downtime at the host detail view or as a bulk action from the host overview.
Troubleshooting
Logging entries relevant to the plug-in will be located in the Foreman's log
which is by default /var/log/foreman/production.log.
Also, check the troubleshooting section of the Smart Proxy plug-in if problems occur in the underlying communication.
Contributing
Fork and send a Pull Request. Thanks!
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2016 The Foreman developers
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.