Ansible role - Nagios client

This role serves for automatic installation of nrpe-client.

The role will perform full installation.

Requirements

This role requires root access, so you either need to specify become directive as a global or while invoking the role.

become: yes

Role paramaters

optional

• nrpe_client_commands - List of monitoring commands. Each command consists of following 2 attributes.
  • name - The name of the command.
  • command - The command itself.
• nrpe_client_plugins - List of plugins that will be copied to remote host.
• nrpe_client_configuration - Object of configuration file where keys are the names of configuration fields.

defaults

• nrpe_client_default_commands - Essentially the same as nrpe_client_commands, but with some predefined monitoring commands. If you want to disable them all, just set this parameter to empty list (i.e. []).
• nrpe_client_default_plugins - Essentially the same as nrpe_client_plugins, but with some predefined plugins. If you want to disable them all, just set this parameter to empty list (i.e. []).

Example

Example of the simplest Nagios client installation.

roles:
    - role: nrpe-client
      become: yes

More specific Nagios client installation.

roles:
    - role: nrpe-client
      nrpe_client_default_commands: []
      nrpe_client_commands:
          - name: check_memnrpe_client
            command: "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mem.pl -u -w 90 -c 100"
      nrpe_client_plugins:
          - /path_to_plugins/check_mem.pl
      nrpe_client_configuration:
          allowed_hosts: 172.16.0.11,ex.example.com
      become: yes