logicmonitor - Manage your LogicMonitor account through Ansible Playbooks

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • LogicMonitor is a hosted, full-stack, infrastructure monitoring platform.
  • This module manages hosts, host groups, and collectors within your LogicMonitor account.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • An existing LogicMonitor account
  • Linux

Options

parameter required default choices comments
action
 yes
  • add
  • remove
  • update
  • sdt
The action you wish to perform on target.
Add: Add an object to your LogicMonitor account.
Remove: Remove an object from your LogicMonitor account.
Update: Update properties, description, or groups (target=host) for an object in your LogicMonitor account.
SDT: Schedule downtime for an object in your LogicMonitor account.
alertenable
 no True
  • True
  • False
A boolean flag to turn alerting on or off for an object.
Optional for managing all hosts (action=add or action=update).
collector
 no
The fully qualified domain name of a collector in your LogicMonitor account.
This is required for the creation of a LogicMonitor host (target=host action=add).
This is required for updating, removing or scheduling downtime for hosts if 'displayname' isn't specified (target=host action=update action=remove action=sdt).
company
 yes
The LogicMonitor account company name. If you would log in to your account at "superheroes.logicmonitor.com" you would use "superheroes."
description
 no
The long text description of the object in your LogicMonitor account.
Optional for managing hosts and host groups (target=host or target=hostgroup; action=add or action=update).
displayname
 no hostname -f
The display name of a host in your LogicMonitor account or the desired display name of a device to manage.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host).
duration
 no 30
The duration (minutes) of the Scheduled Down Time (SDT).
Optional for putting an object into SDT (action=sdt).
fullpath
 no
The fullpath of the host group object you would like to manage.
Recommend running on a single Ansible host.
Required for management of LogicMonitor host groups (target=hostgroup).
groups
 no
A list of groups that the host should be a member of.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host; action=add or action=update).
hostname
 no hostname -f
The hostname of a host in your LogicMonitor account, or the desired hostname of a device to manage.
Optional for managing hosts (target=host).
id
 no
ID of the datasource to target.
Required for management of LogicMonitor datasources (target=datasource).
password
 yes
The password of the specified LogicMonitor user
properties
 no
A dictionary of properties to set on the LogicMonitor host or host group.
Optional for managing hosts and host groups (target=host or target=hostgroup; action=add or action=update).
This parameter will add or update existing properties in your LogicMonitor account.
starttime
 no Now
The time that the Scheduled Down Time (SDT) should begin.
Optional for managing SDT (action=sdt).
Y-m-d H:M
target
 yes
  • collector
  • host
  • datsource
  • hostgroup
The type of LogicMonitor object you wish to manage.
Collector: Perform actions on a LogicMonitor collector.
NOTE You should use Ansible service modules such as service or supervisorctl for managing the Collector 'logicmonitor-agent' and 'logicmonitor-watchdog' services. Specifically, you'll probably want to start these services after a Collector add and stop these services before a Collector remove.
Host: Perform actions on a host device.
Hostgroup: Perform actions on a LogicMonitor host group.
NOTE Host and Hostgroup tasks should always be performed via delegate_to: localhost. There are no benefits to running these tasks on the remote host and doing so will typically cause problems.
user
 yes
A LogicMonitor user name. The module will authenticate and perform actions on behalf of this user.

Examples

# example of adding a new LogicMonitor collector to these devices
---
- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy/verify LogicMonitor collectors
    become: yes
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: add
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'

#example of adding a list of hosts into monitoring
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy LogicMonitor Host
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: mycompany-Collector
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      groups: /servers/production,/datacenter1
      properties:
        snmp.community: secret
        dc: 1
        type: prod
    delegate_to: localhost

#example of putting a datasource in SDT
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT a datasource
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: datasource
      action: sdt
      id: 123
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2017-03-04 05:06'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'

#example of creating a hostgroup
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Create a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: add
      fullpath: /servers/development
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        type: dev

#example of putting a list of hosts into SDT
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: sdt
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2016-11-10 09:08'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
    delegate_to: localhost

#example of putting a host group in SDT
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: SDT a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: sdt
      fullpath: /servers/development
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2017-03-04 05:06'
      company=: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'

#example of updating a list of hosts
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Update a list of hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: update
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
      groups: /servers/production,/datacenter5
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        dc: 5
    delegate_to: localhost

#example of updating a hostgroup
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Update a host group
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: update
      fullpath: /servers/development
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: hg
        type: dev
        status: test
    delegate_to: localhost

#example of removing a list of hosts from monitoring
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor hosts
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      collector: mycompany-Collector
    delegate_to: localhost

#example of removing a host group
---
- hosts: hosts
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor development servers hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /servers/development
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor servers hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /servers
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor datacenter1 hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor datacenter5 hostgroup
    # All tasks except for target=collector should use delegate_to: localhost
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      fullpath: /datacenter5
    delegate_to: localhost

### example of removing a new LogicMonitor collector to these devices
---
- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Remove LogicMonitor collectors
    become: yes
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: remove
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'

#complete example
---
- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Create a host group
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: add
      fullpath: /servers/production/database
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
  - name: SDT a host group
    logicmonitor:
      target: hostgroup
      action: sdt
      fullpath: /servers/production/web
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2012-03-04 05:06'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'

- hosts: collectors
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: Deploy/verify LogicMonitor collectors
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: add
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
  - name: Place LogicMonitor collectors into 30 minute Scheduled downtime
    logicmonitor:
      target: collector
      action: sdt
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
  - name: Deploy LogicMonitor Host
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: agent1.ethandev.com
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        dc: 1
      groups: /servers/production/collectors, /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost

- hosts: database-servers
  remote_user: '{{ username }}'
  vars:
    company: mycompany
    user: myusername
    password: mypassword
  tasks:
  - name: deploy logicmonitor hosts
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: add
      collector: monitoring.dev.com
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
      properties:
        snmp.community: commstring
        type: db
        dc: 1
      groups: /servers/production/database, /datacenter1
    delegate_to: localhost
  - name: schedule 5 hour downtime for 2012-11-10 09:08
    logicmonitor:
      target: host
      action: sdt
      duration: 3000
      starttime: '2012-11-10 09:08'
      company: '{{ company }}'
      user: '{{ user }}'
      password: '{{ password }}'
    delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
success
flag indicating that execution was successful
 success boolean True

Notes

Note

  • You must have an existing LogicMonitor account for this module to function.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/logicmonitor_module.html