Panopta

Overview

This module implements and manages the Panopta agent and it's modules.

Module Description

The module allows you to install and configure the Panopta agent easely. It deploys the manifest file with the companies settings. Installs and configures the Panopta agent, and adds the server into your Panopta account.

NOTE: Resource tiltes are not being used.

Variables:

$customer_key
String Required: you can find this at: my.panopta.com > My Account
$server_key
String Optional, defaults to seeded_rand($::fqdn, 65565)
$server_group
Integer Optional, Default: 0 (unset) $aggregator_url
String Default: unset, do not use unless it needs to proxy through the OnSight appliance.
$interface_mapping
Integer Default: unset
$templates
String Optional, Default: 0 (unset) $tags
Array Optional, Default: empty
$fqdn
String Optional, Default: $::fqdn
$server_name
String Optional, Default: $::hostname
$plugins
Hash Optional, Default: empty $enable_counter_measures Boolean Optional, Default: false

Examples:

###Example with only required parameters

class {'panopta':
  customer_key => 'abc-def-hij',
  server_group => 336981
}

###Enabling a module:

class {'panopta':
  customer_key => 'abc-def-hij',
  server_group => 336981,
  modules      => {
    'mysql' => {
      username         => 'username',
      password         => 'password',
      extended_metrics => 'Threads_cached, Threads_connected, Threads_created, Threads_running'
    },
  }
}

###Enabling multiple modules:

class {'panopta':
  customer_key => 'abc-def-hij',
  server_group => 336981,
  modules      => {
    'mysql' => {
      username         => 'username',
      password         => 'password',
      extended_metrics => 'Threads_cached, Threads_connected, Threads_created, Threads_running'
    },
    'nginx' => {
      url => 'http://username:password@localhost:8080/server-status'
    }
  }
}

List of supported plugins with options and examples.

Please refer to the documentation of Panopta: http://help.panopta.com/v1.0/docs/plugins

Limitations

Supported Operating Systems

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04

Debian

• Debian 6
• Debian 7
• Debian 8

2018-04-27 - Release 1.1.1

Sumary

Minor update

Updates

• Added manifest support for counter measures

2017-08-07 - Release 1.0.3

Summary

Minor update and fixes

Updates

• Promoted to official module by Panopta
• Minor update in the Readme

Fixes

• Dependencies contain unbounded ranges.
• Unrecognized license in metadata.

2017-07-25 - Release 1.0.2

Minor bugfixes & improvements

• Fix: server_group is no longer required.
• Fix: apt_get update is no longer called twice.
• Fix: server_group is an int, was used as string in template.
• Fix: manifest file doesn't get replaced when it already exists

2017-07-23 - Release 1.0.1

Update: Changelog for release 1.0.0

2017-07-23 - Release 1.0.0

Major update after a long time.

• Redone most of the module
• Removed old force install
• Added normal puppetlabs/apt usage for adding the panopta repository
• Renamed modules to plugins as this is the official naming
• Updated tests for my test environment
• Removed puppetlabs/concat dependency
• Fixed how plugins being handled in manifest

2014-10-24 - Release 0.0.3

Summary

Minor bug fixes

Bugfixes

• Permanent fix for the error "E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes" This added option 'forceInstall => true/false' to allow the forced install or not.

2014-10-20 - Release 0.0.2

Summary

Minor bug fixes + Updates.

Bugfixes

• Sometimes the panopta-agent package doesn't get installed. Shomehow changing the install_options from array to string solved the issue.
• Added a changelog.
• Updated the Readme.

2014-10-20 - Release 0.0.1

Summary

This is the first release.