Scout Realtime Role for Ansible

This role installs Scout Realtime which provides easy, beautiful, and free real-time server metrics.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible version 1.4 or higher and the Debian/Ubuntu platform and Ruby 1.8.7 or higher.

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows:

# The default port used for the metrics web interface
scout_port: 5555

# The default path for the service's log file
scout_logpath: '/var/log/scout_realtime.log'

# The default path for the service's PID
scout_pidpath: '/root/.scout/scout_realtime.pid'

Note: Scout Realtime is currently in beta. Currently if you change the PID path, the daemon will no longer stop properly and the process must be manually killed.

Examples

1. Install Scout Realtime and view server stats from your local computer

   ---
   # This playbook bootstraps machines with common users
   
   - name: Apply Scout Realtime role to metrics nodes
     hosts: metrics
     roles:
       - scout-realtime

2. View server stats from your local computer

   • Create an SSH tunnel to your server running Scout Realtime

     ssh -NL 5555:localhost:5555 user@ip_or_hostname

   • Point your browser to: http://localhost:5555

3. View server stats from any computer

   • Open a port in the firewall on your server running Scout Realtime

     sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5555 -j ACCEPT

   • Point your browser to: http://ip_or_hostname:5555

Dependencies

The following packages may be required for Debian derivatives:

• rubygems

License

MIT.