From ef5d37fffc262ef5306940e2686fb86c2142dd5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jurgenhaas <juergen@paragon-es.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:57:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docker/l3d#74 Move all documentation to devops-tools doc --- README.md | 75 ++----------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 67750b0..3b2333c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,74 +1,3 @@ -Ansible plugin for Server Density -================================= +# Ansible plugin for Server Density -This is an [Ansible] plugin to manage your Ansible inventory over at [Server Density]. It uses the [ServerDensity API] and the [Ansible API]. - -##Features## - -The following objects can be created and updated in your Server Density account from within Ansible: - -* Hosts/Devices with groups -* Services with groups -* Alerts for - * Devices - * Device Groups - * Services - * Service Groups -* Notifications for alerts - -There are plugin parameters to define how the plugin will behave: - -* **api_token**: An API token from Server Density to authenticate yourself -* **force** (optional, defaults to False): If an object already exists whether it should be updated -* **cache** (optional, defaults to None): Fully qualified filename for a cache of der Server Density data -* **cleanup** (optional, defaults to False): Decides if undefined alerts in your Ansible inventory available at Server Density should be deleted -* **readonly** (optional, defaults to False): If set to True it will only read the current settings from SD and stores them in a temporary file and does nothing else. This is useful when you want to find out some variable names for alerts or similar things -* **output** (optional, defaults to False): If provided, all current settings that are currently set upstream at Server Density will be written in YAML to this file - -##Installation## - -Download (or clone) the file `serverdensity.py` from the `action_plugins` directory and copy that into your custom action plugins directory which is defined in `/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg`. The default location for this is `/usr/share/ansible_plugins/action_plugins` - -##Usage## - -This plugin can be used in playbooks or with the ansible script directly. - -###In Playbooks### - -Simply include a task like this: - -``` - - name: ServerDensity | Init SD plugin - local_action: serverdensity - api_token={{sd_api_token}} - cleanup=true - cache='/tmp/my_sd_cache' -``` - -You may also be interested in the [Server Density Role] that I've written which in addition installs and configures the Server Density agent on your hosts and synchronizes your inventory with Server Density by utilizing this plugin. - -###From the ansible script### - -Your whole inventory gets synchronized with Server Density simply by using this command: - -``` -ansible all -m serverdensity -a 'api_token=YOUR_SD_TOKEN' -vv -``` - -The final -vv parameter is inhancing the level of output on the console and with this plugin you'll get some quite useful information on what's going on in detail. - -##Configuration## - -The following variables are required in order to use this plugin and you should define them somewhere in you inventory, e.g. in group_vars/all. Further configuration for device groups, services and alerts can be defined in variables too and they are fully documented in the [Wiki]. - -###sd_url### - -Defines the Server Density URL of your account, e.g. ```'https://myaccount.serverdensity.io'``` - - -[Ansible]: http://www.ansible.com -[Server Density]: https://www.serverdensity.com -[ServerDensity API]: https://apidocs.serverdensity.com -[Ansible API]: http://docs.ansible.com/index.html -[Server Density Role]: https://github.com/jurgenhaas/ansible-role-serverdensity -[Wiki]: https://github.com/jurgenhaas/ansible-plugin-serverdensity/wiki +You find all the details in the [full documentation](https://devops-tools.docs.lakedrops.com/ansible/plugins/serverdensity/). -- GitLab