SmokePing Puppet module

Puppet module to completely manage a SmokePing installation. Includes managing of Master/Slave installation and the menu hierarchy.

Some background information can be found here: Puppet module to manage SmokePing

Features

Master/Slave/Standalone SmokePing configuration possible
Menu hierarchy implemented
Define Probes and Alert patterns
Config files managed with templates
Uses exported resources to configure Slaves on the Master (tag: smokeping-slave)
Automatically generates a shared secret for Master/Slave configuration (tag: smokeping-slave-secret)

Supported Platforms

Fully supported:

Ubuntu (Tested on 12.04, 14.04)

Standalone Only (no master/slave support yet):

Fedora 22+
CentOS 7+ (Note: requires third party repository to provide smokeping package).

Dependencies

Example

Standalone SmokePing instance

# install a standalone instance on a server with default values (see init.pp for
# parameter documentation
class { '::smokeping':
    mode => 'standalone',
}

Master SmokePing instance

# install a master instance on a server with default values (see init.pp for
# parameter documentation. You must have a slave, or this will not work!
class { '::smokeping':
    mode => 'master',
}

Slave SmokePing instance

class { '::smokeping':
    mode           => 'slave',
    slave_name     => $::hostname,
    master_url     => 'http://myserver.tld/smokeping/smokeping.cgi',
    slave_location => 'zurich',
}

This configures the server as slaves and adds the slave definition automatically to the master using exported resources.

Probes

$probes = [
    { name => 'FPing', binary => '/usr/bin/fping' },
    { name => 'FPing6', binary => '/usr/bin/fping6' },
]
Class['::smokeping'] {
  probes => $probes
}

Alerts

$alerts = [
  {
    name        => 'bigloss',
    alert_type  => 'loss',
    pattern     => '==0%,==0%,==0%,==0%,>0%,>0%,>0%',
    comment     => 'suddenly there is packet loss',
  },

  {
    name        => 'startloss',
    alert_type  => 'loss',
    pattern     => '==S,>0%,>0%,>0%',
    comment     => 'loss at startup',
  },

  {
    name        => 'noloss',
    alert_type  => 'loss',
    pattern     => '>0%,>0%,>0%,==0%,==0%,==0%,==0%',
    edgetrigger => true,
    comment     => 'there was loss and now its reachable again',
  },
]
Class['::smokeping'] {
  alerts => $alerts,
}

Targets

# Top Level
smokeping::target { 'World':
    menu      => 'World',
    pagetitle => 'Connection to the World',
    alerts    => [ 'bigloss', 'noloss' ],
}

smokeping::target { 'GoogleCH':
    hierarchy_parent => 'World',
    hierarchy_level  => 2,
    menu             => 'google.ch',
    pagetitle        => 'Google',
}
smokeping::target { 'GoogleCHIPv4':
    hierarchy_parent => 'GoogleCH',
    hierarchy_level  => 3,
    menu             => 'google.ch IPv4',
    host             => 'google.ch',
    slaves           => ['slave1'],
}
smokeping::target { 'GoogleCHIPv6':
    hierarchy_parent => 'GoogleCH',
    hierarchy_level  => 3,
    menu             => 'google.ch IPv6',
    host             => 'google.ch',
    probe            => 'FPing6',
    slaves           => ['slave1'],
}
smokeping::target { 'GoogleCHCurl':
    hierarchy_parent => 'GoogleCH',
    hierarchy_level  => 3,
    menu             => 'google.ch Curl',
    host             => 'google.ch',
    probe            => 'Curl',
    options          => {
      urlformat => 'http://%host%/',
    }
}