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tickets #18432

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saltstack: result reports of salt run on minions

Added by tampakrap about 7 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
tampakrap
Category:
Configuration management (CM)
Target version:
-
Start date:
2017-04-07
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Right now saltstack is running on our production machines and we have no idea what it is doing. We need at least one of the followings:

  • email reporting on changes
  • a web interface with combined results (saltpad partially has the functionality)
  • store the salt run of every minion in plain logfiles or in a database
  • nagios alerts for failed runs on minions
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 #1

Updated by tampakrap about 7 years ago

  • Private changed from Yes to No
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 #2

Updated by aboe76 almost 7 years ago

possible solution:

#pillar schedule returner rawfile_json

schedule:
highstate:
function: state.apply
minutes: 60
returner: rawfile_json

This will generate a file /var/log/salt/events

#nagios

nagios-check_file_content

check_file_content.pl -f /var/log/salt/events -i success -n 1

output:
OK for /var/log/salt/events (1 found)

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 #3

Updated by aboe76 almost 7 years ago

Found some interesting documenation on how foreman solved the salt reporting:

https://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_salt/2.0/

It seems that salt scheduling with pillar won't return it's full event report..

they mention: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/12653

in which a user scubahub proposes a solution...maybe this can help...

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 #4

Updated by aboe76 over 6 years ago

@tampakrap,

The latest 2017.7.0 (Nitrogen) had a new function:
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/returners/all/salt.returners.highstate_return.html#module-salt.returners.highstate_return

an example:

salt:
  minion:
    master: salt

    schedule:
      highstate:
        function: state.apply
        minutes: 60
        return_job: True
        returner: highstate
        return_kwargs:
         report_failures: true
         report_changes: true
         report_everything: false 
         report_format: html
         report_delivery: file
         file_output: /var/log/salt/highstate.html
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 #5

Updated by tampakrap over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

We won't do this, running state.apply manually only on the affected hosts and checking the output immediately has served us well all those years

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