An ansible playbook to install Cloud Monitoring plugins on the localhost. This guide will not go into how to install ansible or git for your system.

Default command:

ansible-playbook -i hosts <playbook>

###Available playbooks

• holland_mysqldump.yml
• lsyncd_status.yml
• mysql_slave.yml
• port_check.yml

###Examples

Name	Examples
holland_mysqldump	holland_mysqldump.yml
lsyncd_status	lsyncd_status.yml
mysql_slave	mysql_slave.yml
port_check	port_check.yml -e port=8080 port_check.yml -e '{"host":"rackspace.com","port":"80"}'

###Assumptions It is assumed that you have the ability to run Ansible. That may require installation of appropriate packages for the operating system or Python modules.

###Operating systems Functionality has been tested on Debian+Ubuntu and RHEL+CentOS.

###Modifiers You can edit the group_vars/all file if you want to change any of the defaults.

• The Notification Plan will default to npManaged, but you can change it to npTechnicalContactsEmail or any notification plan that is created for the account.

###Troubleshooting Some tips to help you in the right direction.

• The Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Agent log file can be found in /var/log/rackspace-monitoring-agent.log.
• Configuration files will exist in /etc/rackspace-monitoring-agent.conf.d/.
• The npManaged notification plan only exists for Managed Accounts, make sure you update this if you are an infrastructure account.

###References:

• Rackspace Cloud Monitorin API - Agent Configuration File
• Github for Cloud Monitoring Agent Plugins