logicmonitor – Manage your LogicMonitor account through Ansible Playbooks¶
Synopsis¶
- LogicMonitor is a hosted, full-stack, infrastructure monitoring platform.
- This module manages hosts, host groups, and collectors within your LogicMonitor account.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- An existing LogicMonitor account
- Linux
Parameters¶
Examples¶
# example of adding a new LogicMonitor collector to these devices
---
- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy/verify LogicMonitor collectors
    become: yes
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: add
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
#example of adding a list of hosts into monitoring
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy LogicMonitor Host
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: mycompany-Collector
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      groups: /servers/production,/datacenter1
      properties:
        snmp.community: secret
        dc: 1
        type: prod
    delegate_to: localhost
#example of putting a datasource in SDT
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT a datasource
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: datasource
      action: sdt
      id: 123
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2017-03-04 05:06'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
#example of creating a hostgroup
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Create a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: add
      fullpath: /servers/development
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        type: dev
#example of putting a list of hosts into SDT
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: sdt
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2016-11-10 09:08'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
    delegate_to: localhost
#example of putting a host group in SDT
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: sdt
      fullpath: /servers/development
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2017-03-04 05:06'
      company=: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
#example of updating a list of hosts
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Update a list of hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: update
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
      groups: /servers/production,/datacenter5
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        dc: 5
    delegate_to: localhost
#example of updating a hostgroup
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Update a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: update
      fullpath: /servers/development
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: hg
        type: dev
        status: test
    delegate_to: localhost
#example of removing a list of hosts from monitoring
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
    delegate_to: localhost
#example of removing a host group
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor development servers hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /servers/development
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor servers hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /servers
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor datacenter1 hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor datacenter5 hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /datacenter5
    delegate_to: localhost
### example of removing a new LogicMonitor collector to these devices
---
- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor collectors
    become: yes
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
#complete example
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Create a host group
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: add
      fullpath: /servers/production/database
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
  - name: SDT a host group
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: sdt
      fullpath: /servers/production/web
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2012-03-04 05:06'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy/verify LogicMonitor collectors
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: add
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
  - name: Place LogicMonitor collectors into 30 minute Scheduled downtime
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: sdt
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
  - name: Deploy LogicMonitor Host
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: agent1.ethandev.com
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        dc: 1
      groups: /servers/production/collectors, /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost
- hosts: database-servers
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: deploy logicmonitor hosts
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: monitoring.dev.com
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        type: db
        dc: 1
      groups: /servers/production/database, /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: schedule 5 hour downtime for 2012-11-10 09:08
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: sdt
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2012-11-10 09:08'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
    delegate_to: localhost
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| success 
                  boolean
                                       | success | flag indicating that execution was successful Sample: True | 
Status¶
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors¶
- Ethan Culler-Mayeno (@ethanculler)
- Jeff Wozniak (@woz5999)
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