Ansible Role: sysstat

This Ansible role installs and sets up sysstat.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Role Variables
• Dependencies
• Example Playbook
  • Top-Level Playbook
  • Role Dependency
• License
• Author Information

Requirements

• Ansible version 2 or higher.

Role Variables

You can control whether to collect performance data using the sar service and scheduled tasks with this variable:

sysstat_sar_service: no

Other settings for data collection:

sysstat_history_days: 28  # how many days to keep history
sysstat_compress_after_days: 31  # when to start compressing data
sysstat_sadc_options: '-S DISK'  # options for the collection
sysstat_sa_dir: /var/log/sa  # directory for logs
sysstat_compression_program: bzip2  # program used for compression
sysstat_sa2_generate_yesterday: no  # whether to generate yesterday's data
sysstat_sa2_generate_reports: false  # whether to create reports

Dependencies

There are no dependencies.

Example Playbook

Add this to your requirements.yml:

---

- src: idiv-biodiversity.sysstat

...

To install, use:

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Top-Level Playbook

Create a main playbook:

---

- name: head server
  hosts: head

  roles:
    - role: idiv-biodiversity.sysstat
      tags:
        - sysstat

...

Role Dependency

If your role depends on another, specify it in meta/main.yml:

---

dependencies:

  - role: idiv-biodiversity.sysstat
    tags:
      - sysstat

...

License

MIT License

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Christian Krause, also known as wookietreiber on GitHub, who is an HPC cluster systems administrator at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).