ansible-report

Utility to log and report Ansible activity

For information on Ansible, see http://ansible.cc.

Requirements

• Ansible >= 1.2
• SQLAlchemy >= 0.7
• Alembic
• python-dateutil

Example Output

Here is an example output:

$ ansible-report -o screen -o email
=================== Playbooks ====================

/var/lib/ansible/audit.yml: 
        User: sfromm (sfromm)
  Start time: 2013-05-02 10:36:02
    End time: 2013-05-02 10:36:06

  --------- Tasks ---------

  10:36:02 gandalf.example.net command: OK

  -------- Summary --------

  gandalf.example.net   : ok=3  changed=1  error=0  failed=0  skipped=0  unreachable=0  

Callback Configuration

To configure the callback plugin, place the file ansiblereport-logger.py in the directory where you have ansible configured to look for callback plugins. The default location for this is typically:

/usr/share/ansible_plugins/callback_plugins

Alternatively, you can configure this directory via your ansible.cfg. After copying there, you need to configure the sqlalchemy url that will be used. The following is an example that uses a sqlite file in the current directory:

[ansiblereport]
sqlalchemy.url = sqlite:///ansbile.sqlite

For information on configuring sqlaclhemy, one starting point is SQLAlchemy Engines. More information is available at http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/.

Report Configuration

The only configuration related to reporting is the necessary SMTP settings. These are:

[ansiblereport]
smtp.server = localhost
smtp.subject = ansible-report
smtp.sender = nobody@example.net
smtp.recipient = root@example.net

The smtp.server setting is what ansible-report will connect to when sending an email report to the configured recipients.

Output Plugins

All outputs are plugins. Take a look at lib/ansiblereport/output.py and the existing implementations plugins/output_plugins/screen.py and plugins/output_plugins/email.py. You can easily extend OutputModule from output.py to create your own output. If you do extend ansible-report, please consider sending a pull-request for the new output.

Schema Migrations

At this time, the database schema is not finalized. While I will endeavor to provide a mechanism to keep up with schema changes, I make no guarantees at this time. Migrations will be handled with alembic. Please refer to alembic documentation for how to handle migrations. In the simple case, you should be able to do:

$ alembic upgrade head

In order to configure alembic, you should update the sqlalchemy.url key in alembic.ini.

Note: If you are using SQLite, please be aware that it has limited abilities to [alter tables] 1. You should also refer to Alembic's [note] 2 on the subject.