Agents Administration - Tests
 

Configuration of AnsibleTowerTest

This test continuously monitors the Ansible tower, and proactively reveals the number of hosts that failed while executing the jobs, and the number of jobs that failed. These statistics help administrators to find out how well/badly the jobs are performed on the Tower. In addition, this test also reports the synchronization failures among the inventories/projects while launching the jobs. This helps administrators to detect the issues in the synchronization, if any, and take remedial actions immediately.

The default parameters associated with this test are as follows:

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • In the HOST text box, the host for which the test is to be configured has to be specified.

  • In the PORT text box, enter the port number at which the target host being monitored listens.

  • The eG agent makes REST API calls for pulling out performance metrics from the Ansible Tower. For this purpose, the eG agent should be allowed to connect to Ansible Tower's REST API. To enable this connection, administrators need to configure the valid credentials of a user who has administrator privileges on the Ansible Tower against these parameters in USERNAME and PASSWORD text boxes.

  • Confirm the password by retyping it in CONFIRM PASSWORD textbox.

  • By default, the Ansible Tower is SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to True by default. This indicates that the eG agent will communicate with the Ansible Tower via HTTPS, by default.

  • The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY.

  • To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, eG embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test, by default, for a particular server, choose the On option against DETAILED DIAGNOSIS. To disable the capability, click on the Off option.

    The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:

    • The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability.

    • Both the bad and normal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.

  • If multiple components of the same component type are awaiting configuration, then an APPLY TO OTHER COMPONENTS check box will appear in this page. Clicking on this check box will allow you to apply the configuration to all/selected components of that type.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing the configuration for specific servers, a “*” beside the text box corresponding to the parameter signifies that these values have to be manually configured by the user. The parameter values that require to be configured will typically be prefixed with a “$” or contain a series of “*”. A value of “none” in the parameter value indicates that the corresponding parameter value can be changed if required.