Sosreport

Generate, Retrieve and upload sosreport to Red Hat Customer Portal.

Requirements

Ansible 2.9 minimum

Role Variables

Variables default/main.yaml

# Red Hat Customer Portal credentials
rhn_user: ""
rhn_pass: ""

# Proxy to reach Red Hat Customer Portal
https_proxy: ""

# Where to store the sosreport on the managed node
sosreport_remote_location: "/var/tmp"

# Where to store the sosreport(s) on the controller
sosreport_local_location: "/var/tmp/{{ caseNumber }}"

# Should we delete sosreport from remote hosts, once downloaded locally
sosreport_delete_remote_sosreports: true
# Should we delete downloaded sosreport once uploaded
sosreport_delete_local_sosreports: true

# Sos default options
sosreport_options: "--log-size 4096 --all-logs"
# Extra options to pass to sos command
sosreport_extra_options: ""

# Upload to Red Hat ?
upload: true

Variables vars/main.yaml

sosreport_packages:
  - sos

sosreport_command: "sos report {{ sosreport_options }} {{ sosreport_extra_options }} --batch --tmp-dir {{ sosreport_remote_location }} --case-id {{ caseNumber }}"

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- name: "Generate and Send sosreports to Red Hat Customer Portal"
  hosts: "{{ nodes }}"
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: tinsjourney.sosreport
      vars:
        - rhn_user: "my_user"
        - rhn_pass: "my_password"
        - caseNumber: "01234567"

License

BSD

Author Information

Stephane V. : tinsjourney@mastodon.top

Special Thanks

Role inspired by Michael Buluma