Install Ansible Playbook for Cloud Monitoring

This article shows you how to install the Ansible® playbook for Cloud Monitoring on your cloud server by using the following steps:

1. Connect to the cloud server on which you want to run Ansible locally.

2. Update the operating system (OS) and install Python plug-ins by running the following commands:

   • On Debian® and the Ubuntu® operating system:

     apt-get update && apt-get install python-apt python-pip build-essential python-dev git python-virtualenv -y
     

   • On Red Hat® and CentOS®:

     yum install python-pip git python-devel python-virtualenv gcc -y
     

3. Prepare the virtual environment by running the following commands:

   virtualenv /root/monitorenv
   
   . /root/monitorenv/bin/activate
   pip install paramiko PyYAML jinja2 httplib2 ansible
   

4. Download the playbook by running the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/stevekaten/cloud-monitoring-plugin-deploy
   

5. Move to the repository that holds the playbook that you just downloaded by running the following command:

   cd cloud-monitoring-plugin-deploy
   

6. Next, you need to use the following commands to configure the plug-ins:

   • The following command configures the holland_mysqldump plug-in on the local host:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts holland_mysqldump.yml
     

   • The following command configures the mysql_slave plug-in on the local host:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts mysql_slave.yml
     

   • The following command fails with an error message informing you that you need to set a port:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts port_check.yml
     

   • The following command configures the port_check plug-in on the localhost to check if port 8080 is open:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts port_check.yml -e port=8080
     

   • The following command configures the port_check plug-in to check rackspace.com:80:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts port_check.yml -e '{"host":"rackspace.com","port":"80"}'
     

   • The following command configures the port_check plugin to check the MySQL® port 3306 on the ServiceNet address:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts port_check.yml -e '{"host":"10.X.X.X","port":"3306"}'
     

   • The following command configures the lsyncd_check plug-in:

     ansible-playbook -i hosts lsyncd_check.yml
     

After you follow the preceding steps, the Ansible playbook should start running and monitoring your cloud server automatically.