Rackspace Monitoring CLI

Command line utility for Rackspace Cloud Monitoring.

Installation

Utility can be installed using pip:

$ sudo pip install rackspace-monitoring-cli

Note: If you don't use a virtual environment the library needs to be installed under the user which has a write permission to /usr/local/bin where the script files are installed.

Settings Credentials

Credentials can be set (in order of precedence) as environment variables (RAXMON_USERNAME, RAXMON_API_KEY, RAXMON_API_URL, RAXMON_AUTH_URL), in a configuration file or you can pass them manually to each command.

Default configuration file path is ~/.raxrc but you can overrride it by setting the RAXMON_RAXRC environment variable. For example:

RAXMON_RAXRC=~/.raxrc.uk raxmon-entities-list

Note:

• US API authentication end point is the default value and can be omitted
• UK API authentication end point is https://lon.identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens

Example configuration file

[credentials]
username=foo
api_key=bar

[api]
url=https://monitoring.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0

[auth_api]
url=https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens

[ssl]
verify=true

Using bash completion

source contrib/optcomplete.sh

Usage

General

command [--username=<username>] [--api-key=<api key>] [--api-url=<api url>] [..options..]

View available options

command --help

Specifying lists and dictionaries

List

Use a comma delimited string. For example:

raxmon-checks-create --monitoring-zones=mzA,mzB,mzC

Dictionary

Use a comma delimited string of key=value pairs. For example

raxmon-entities-create --metadata="location=server room,tag=foobar"

View available commands

raxmon

Issues, Feedback

Please use Github issue tracker or send an email to monitoring@rackspace.com.