sumologic-collector Cookbook

This cookbook installs the Sumo Logic collector. Linux installs use the shell script installer and Windows uses the exe installer. Here are the steps it follows:

1. Sets up sumo.conf and sumo.json. By default the standard Linux logs are captured. On Windows the application and system event logs are captured.
2. Downloads latest installer
3. Runs installer
4. Starts collector and registers with the Sumo Logic service

The collector Requires outbound access to https://collectors.sumologic.com. Edit sumo.json to add/edit/remove sources. After installation you can test connectivity.

Installation

1. Create an Access Key
2. Install the cookbook in your Chef repo (your knife version should be at least 11.10.4 and you should have the knife github plugin installed):

knife cookbook github install SumoLogic/sumologic-collector-chef-cookbook

3. Specify data bag and item with your access credentials. The data item should contain attributes accessID and accessKey. Note that attribute names are case sensitive. If the cases mismatch, the values will not appear when chef-client runs. The default data bag/item is ['sumo-creds']['api-creds']

4. Upload the cookbook to your Chef Server:

knife cookbook upload sumologic-collector

5. Add the sumologic-collector receipe to your node run lists. This step depends on your node configuration, so specifics will not be described in this README.md.

Attributes

['sumologic']['ephemeral']	Boolean	Sumo Logic Ephemeral Setting	Required
['sumologic']['installDir']	String	Sumo Logic Install Directory	Required
['sumologic']['credentials']['bag_name']	String	Name of the data bag.	Required
['sumologic']['credentials']['item_name']	String	Name of the item within the data bag.	Required
['sumologic']['credentials']['secret_file']	String	Path to the local file containing the encryption secret key.	Optional

Contributing

This cookbook is meant to help customers use Chef to install Sumo Logic collectors, so please feel to fork this repository, and make whatever changes you need for your environment.

License and Authors

Authors: Ben Newton ([email protected])