Default Parameters for 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.