splunk – Sends task result events to Splunk HTTP Event Collector

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• This callback plugin will send task results as JSON formatted events to a Splunk HTTP collector.
• The companion Splunk Monitoring & Diagnostics App is available here “https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4023/”
• Credit to “Ryan Currah (@ryancurrah)” for original source upon which this is based.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this callback.

• Whitelisting this callback plugin
• Create a HTTP Event Collector in Splunk
• Define the url and token in ansible.cfg

Parameters

Examples

examples: >
  To enable, add this to your ansible.cfg file in the defaults block
    [defaults]
    callback_whitelist = splunk
  Set the environment variable
    export SPLUNK_URL=http://mysplunkinstance.datapaas.io:8088/services/collector/event
    export SPLUNK_AUTHTOKEN=f23blad6-5965-4537-bf69-5b5a545blabla88
  Set the ansible.cfg variable in the callback_splunk block
    [callback_splunk]
    url = http://mysplunkinstance.datapaas.io:8088/services/collector/event
    authtoken = f23blad6-5965-4537-bf69-5b5a545blabla88

Status

• This callback is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This callback is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Stuart Hirst <support@convergingdata.com>