Default Parameters for ATowerJobTplTest

This test auto-discovers the job templates in each project in the Ansible Tower, and reports the total number of jobs that was launched using each job template in a particular project. In the process, this test reports the status of a job that ran last in each project and time taken for each job to complete. This enables administrators to identify a job template that causes more job failures and find out if any of the jobs took longer than usual to complete. In addition, this test alerts administrators to the number of hosts and groups that failed during jobs execution using each job template. These statistics help administrators to find out where the real problem (i.e. is it with job template or with host/group?) lies and resolve the same quickly.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the ATowerJobTplTest test.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed. By default this is set to 5 minutes.

• 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.

• Specify the comma-separated list of projects that you want the eG agent to exclude from monitoring against this parameter. By default, EXCLUDED PROJECTS is set to &rldquo;none” indicating that this test will monitor all the projects in the Ansible tower.

• Specify the comma-separated list of Job Templates that you want the eG agent to exclude from monitoring in this text box. By default, EXCLUDED JOB TEMPLATES is set to &rldquo;none” indicating that this test will monitor all the Job Templates in the Ansible tower.

• 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.

• Once the above values are provided, click on the UPDATE button to register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz*” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.