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

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
action
- / required
    Choices:
  • add
  • remove
  • update
  • sdt
The action you wish to perform on target.
Add: Add an object to your LogicMonitor account.
Remove: Remove an object from your LogicMonitor account.
Update: Update properties, description, or groups (target=host) for an object in your LogicMonitor account.
SDT: Schedule downtime for an object in your LogicMonitor account.
alertenable
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
A boolean flag to turn alerting on or off for an object.
Optional for managing all hosts (action=add or action=update).
collector
-
The fully qualified domain name of a collector in your LogicMonitor account.
This is required for the creation of a LogicMonitor host (target=host action=add).
This is required for updating, removing or scheduling downtime for hosts if 'displayname' isn't specified (target=host action=update action=remove action=sdt).
company
- / required
The LogicMonitor account company name. If you would log in to your account at "superheroes.logicmonitor.com" you would use "superheroes."
description
-
Default:
""
The long text description of the object in your LogicMonitor account.
Optional for managing hosts and host groups (target=host or target=hostgroup; action=add or action=update).
displayname
-
Default:
"hostname -f"
The display name of a host in your LogicMonitor account or the desired display name of a device to manage.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host).
duration
-
Default:
30
The duration (minutes) of the Scheduled Down Time (SDT).
Optional for putting an object into SDT (action=sdt).
fullpath
-
The fullpath of the host group object you would like to manage.
Recommend running on a single Ansible host.
Required for management of LogicMonitor host groups (target=hostgroup).
groups
-
Default:
[]
A list of groups that the host should be a member of.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host; action=add or action=update).
hostname
-
Default:
"hostname -f"
The hostname of a host in your LogicMonitor account, or the desired hostname of a device to manage.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host).
id
-
ID of the datasource to target.
Required for management of LogicMonitor datasources (target=datasource).
password
- / required
The password of the specified LogicMonitor user
properties
-
Default:
{}
A dictionary of properties to set on the LogicMonitor host or host group.
Optional for managing hosts and host groups (target=host or target=hostgroup; action=add or action=update).
This parameter will add or update existing properties in your LogicMonitor account.
starttime
-
Default:
"Now"
The time that the Scheduled Down Time (SDT) should begin.
Optional for managing SDT (action=sdt).
Y-m-d H:M
target
- / required
    Choices:
  • collector
  • host
  • datasource
  • hostgroup
The type of LogicMonitor object you wish to manage.
Collector: Perform actions on a LogicMonitor collector.
NOTE You should use Ansible service modules such as service or supervisorctl for managing the Collector 'logicmonitor-agent' and 'logicmonitor-watchdog' services. Specifically, you'll probably want to start these services after a Collector add and stop these services before a Collector remove.
Host: Perform actions on a host device.
Hostgroup: Perform actions on a LogicMonitor host group.
NOTE Host and Hostgroup tasks should always be performed via delegate_to: localhost. There are no benefits to running these tasks on the remote host and doing so will typically cause problems.
user
- / required
A LogicMonitor user name. The module will authenticate and perform actions on behalf of this user.

Notes

Note

  • You must have an existing LogicMonitor account for this module to function.

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

Authors

  • Ethan Culler-Mayeno (@ethanculler)
  • Jeff Wozniak (@woz5999)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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