tribe29 Checkmk Collection

Checkmk already provides the needed APIs to automate and configure your monitoring. With this project we want to create and share modules and roles for Ansible to both simplify your first steps with automating Checkmk and keep your daily operations smooth and efficient.

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Here be dragons!

This repository is provided as is and we cannot guarantee stability at this point. Additionally, there is no commercial support whatsoever! This is an open source endeavour, which we want to share and progress with the community.

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This repository is a successor to ansible-checkmk in a way, that we take the idea of the initial repository and translate it into todays format. We will try to keep you posted as best as we can. Also, keep an eye on this Checkmk forum post for updates.

Dependencies

• ansible.posix
• community.general

Although the Ansible project notes, that collections should have no or very little dependencies, we want to make sure the collection works for you out-of-the-box. Currently we only depend on very basic collections, which are most likely already installed in your environment. For version constraints, see galaxy.yml.

Getting help

For documentation on the included modules, run the following command substituting the $MODULE_NAME:

ansible-doc tribe29.checkmk.$MODULE_NAME

For any form of support queries or requests refer to SUPPORT.md.

Repository Structure

For information about the structure and organization of this repository have a look at STRUCTURE.md.

Included content

Modules

Name	Description	Tests
tribe29.checkmk.activation	Activate changes.
tribe29.checkmk.contact_group	Manage contact groups.
tribe29.checkmk.discovery	Discover services on hosts.
tribe29.checkmk.downtime	Schedule downtimes on hosts and services.
tribe29.checkmk.folder	Manage folders.
tribe29.checkmk.host_group	Manage host groups.
tribe29.checkmk.host	Manage hosts.
tribe29.checkmk.rule	Manage rules.
tribe29.checkmk.service_group	Manage service groups.
tribe29.checkmk.tag_group	Manage tag groups.

Roles

Name	Description	Tests
tribe29.checkmk.agent	Installs Checkmk agents.	Tests currently unavailable.
tribe29.checkmk.server	Installs Checkmk servers.

Installing this collection

Locally

You can install the Checkmk collection locally, if you acquired a tarball from the releases page as follows:

ansible-galaxy collection install /path/to/tribe29-checkmk-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - source: /path/to/tribe29-checkmk-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
    type: file

From the Galaxy

You can install the Checkmk collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install tribe29.checkmk

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: tribe29.checkmk
    version: X.Y.Z

Using this collection

You can either call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as tribe29.checkmk.activation, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the tribe29.checkmk collection in the playbook's collections keyword:

---
- hosts: all

  collections:
    - tribe29.checkmk

  tasks:
    - name: "Run activation."
      activation:
        server_url: "http://localhost/"
        site: "my_site"
        automation_user: "automation"
        automation_secret: "$SECRET"
        force_foreign_changes: 'true'
        sites:
          - "my_site"

More information about Checkmk

• Checkmk Website
• Checkmk Documentation
• Checkmk Community
• tribe29 - the checkmk company

Contributing to this collection

See CONTRIBUTING.

Release notes

See CHANGELOG.rst.

Roadmap

This is merely a collection of possible additions to the role. Please do not consider a concrete planning document!

• Modules
  • Monitoring
    • Acknowledgement
  • Setup
    • Agents
    • BI
    • Passwords
    • Time Periods
• Lookup Plugins
  • Version

More information about Ansible

• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

Licensing

See LICENSE.