scrutiny-playbook

This is an Ansible-based installer for Scrutiny, allowing you to monitor SMART data for a fleet of machines, large or small, and have some idea of when drives are experiencing issues.

It supports both all-in-one and hub-and-spoke deployments, and most popular architectures (amd64, arm64, arm).

Requirements

You'll need the following:

• A computer with a modern version of Ansible installed. The version included in Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04 or CentOS 7+ should work fine.
• One machine to act in the "hub"/"web" role.
• One or many machines to monitor.

For both the collector role and the web (hub) role, the following operating systems are supported:

• Debian 9 or above
• Ubuntu 18.04 or above
• CentOS 7 or above

Demo

Getting Started

• Check out a copy of this repository.

git clone https://github.com/getglass/scrutiny-playbook.git
cd scrutiny-playbook

• Generate an SSH key if you don't already have one.

ssh-keygen

• Copy your SSH key to the servers you want to manage (replace example-host with your server's address).

ssh-copy-id example-host

• Edit the inventory file. Place one machine in the "scrutiny_web" section, then list all the machines you wish to run collectors on in the "scrutiny_collector" section. For a single machine, simply put the same machine into both sections.

Here's an example:

[scrutiny_web]
blinky.windowpa.in

[scrutiny_collector]
blinky.windowpa.in
pinky.windowpa.in
inky.windowpa.in

• Install Ansible Galaxy roles needed to run the playbook:

ansible-galaxy install -r roles/requirements.yml

• Now you're ready to rock! Run Ansible and watch as it sets up your disk monitoring solution.

ansible-playbook site.yml

• If the user you are connecting as requires a sudo password, run this command insatead.

ansible-playbook site.yml --ask-sudo-pass

• You should see a message like this once Ansible finishes, indicating a successful run:

TASK [Success!] **********************************************************************************************
ok: [example.com] => {
    "msg": [
        "If you're reading this, Scrutiny has been successfully deployed.",
        "Let us know if it worked, and feel free to reach out if you need help. Enjoy!"
    ]
}

Credits

scrutiny-playbook was created in 2020 by Benjamin Arntzen.