ansible-sumocollector

Ansible role to install SumoCollector. This role was inspired by modcloth's SumoCollector role, but it goes one step further by including the ability to include additional log paths.

Role Variables

RedHat OS Family

sumocollector_installer_rpm: "https://collectors.sumologic.com/rest/download/rpm/64"
sumologic_installer_rpm_local_folder: "/tmp"

Debian OS Family

sumologic_installer_remote_file: "/tmp/sumocollector.deb"
sumocollector_installer_download: "https://collectors.sumologic.com/rest/download/deb/64"

Credentials

- assuming environment variables $sumologic_collector_accessid and $sumologic_collector_accesskey are set:
sumologic_collector_accessid: "{{ lookup('env','sumologic_collector_accessid') }}"
sumologic_collector_accesskey: "{{ lookup('env','sumologic_collector_accesskey') }}"

Allow overwrite of old collectors.

• See: https://service.sumologic.com/help/Default.htm#Using_Clobber.htm

sumologic_collector_clobber: ""
sumologic_installer_file: ""
sumologic_collector_source_template: "collector.json.j2"
sumologic_collector_timezone: "UTC"
sumologic_collector_force_timezone: "false"

log names and location

• be sure to specify the sumologic_collector_default_log_path variable, as below pattern for 1 or many log locations:

sumologic_collector_default_log_path:
  - name: "EXAMPLE LOG"
    path: "/var/log/EXAMPLE.log"
    use_multiline: false
    category: "EXAMPLE"
  - name: "EXAMPLE LOG 2"
    path: "/var/log/EXAMPLEi2.log"
    use_multiline: false
    category: "EXAMPLE2"

Group variable example:

• be sure to specify the sumologic_collector_application_log_path variable, as below pattern for 1 or many log locations:

sumologic_collector_application_log_path:
  - name: "APP LOG"
    path: "/var/log/APP.log"
    use_multiline: false
    category: "APP" }

Examples

Installation

via ansible-galaxy

installation-A

• run ansible-galaxy install wgregorian.sumocollector

or

installation-B

• requirements.yml

---
    - src: wgregorian.sumocollector

• and run the following to make the role available to playbook: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

playbook

• sample

---
    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: wgregorian.sumocollector

via librarian-ansible

• Ansiblefile

role 'ansible-sumocollector',
  git: 'https://github.com/wgregorian/ansible-sumocollector.git'

playbook

• sample

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
  - role: ansible-sumocollector

• run the following install role vi librarian-ansible to be available to playbook: librarian-ansible install

License

MIT

Author

William Gregorian - CISO, FutureAdvisor.