community.general.rax_mon_alarm – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring alarm.
community.general.rax_mon_alarm – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring alarm.
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rax_mon_alarm
.
Synopsis
- Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring alarm that associates an existing rax_mon_entity, rax_mon_check, and rax_mon_notification_plan with criteria that specify what conditions will trigger which levels of notifications. Rackspace monitoring module flow | rax_mon_entity -> rax_mon_check -> rax_mon_notification -> rax_mon_notification_plan -> rax_mon_alarm
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- python >= 2.6
- pyrax
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
---|---|---|
api_key string |
Rackspace API key, overrides credentials.
| |
auth_endpoint string |
The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/ | |
check_id string / required |
ID of the check that should be alerted on. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_check task. | |
credentials path |
File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.
| |
criteria string |
Alarm DSL that describes alerting conditions and their output states. Must be between 1 and 16384 characters long. See http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/v1.0/cm-devguide/content/alerts-language.html for a reference on the alerting language. | |
disabled boolean |
|
If yes, create this alarm, but leave it in an inactive state. Defaults to no. |
entity_id string / required |
ID of the entity this alarm is attached to. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_entity task. | |
env string |
Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration. | |
identity_type string |
Default: "rackspace" |
Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone. |
label string / required |
Friendly name for this alarm, used to achieve idempotence. Must be a String between 1 and 255 characters long. | |
metadata dictionary |
Arbitrary key/value pairs to accompany the alarm. Must be a hash of String keys and values between 1 and 255 characters long. | |
notification_plan_id string / required |
ID of the notification plan to trigger if this alarm fires. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_notification_plan task. | |
region string |
Region to create an instance in. | |
state string |
|
Ensure that the alarm with this |
tenant_id string |
The tenant ID used for authentication. | |
tenant_name string |
The tenant name used for authentication. | |
username string |
Rackspace username, overrides credentials. | |
validate_certs boolean |
|
Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
|
Notes
Note
- The following environment variables can be used,
RAX_USERNAME
,RAX_API_KEY
,RAX_CREDS_FILE
,RAX_CREDENTIALS
,RAX_REGION
. RAX_CREDENTIALS
andRAX_CREDS_FILE
points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticatingRAX_USERNAME
andRAX_API_KEY
obviate the use of a credentials fileRAX_REGION
defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
Examples
- name: Alarm example
gather_facts: False
hosts: local
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Ensure that a specific alarm exists.
community.general.rax_mon_alarm:
credentials: ~/.rax_pub
state: present
label: uhoh
entity_id: "{{ the_entity['entity']['id'] }}"
check_id: "{{ the_check['check']['id'] }}"
notification_plan_id: "{{ defcon1['notification_plan']['id'] }}"
criteria: >
if (rate(metric['average']) > 10) {
return new AlarmStatus(WARNING);
}
return new AlarmStatus(OK);
register: the_alarm
Authors
- Ash Wilson (@smashwilson)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/rax_mon_alarm_module.html