consolr

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Consolr is a utility to communicate with Collins assets through ipmitool. Doing a collins lookup, it retrieves the attributes necessary to invoke an ipmitool command to the asset.

Consolr supports a subset of commonly used ipmitool actions making the life of system administrators a little easier.

Setup

Consolr is only useful when you have collins setup and a hosts fleet managed by collins with IPMI information populated for each host.

• Make sure you have ipmitool installed.

Ubuntu

# apt-get install openipmi

Redhat Flavors

# yum install ipmitool

• Install the Consolr gem

# gem install consolr

Configuration

The configuration file is where consolr looks for what runners you have enabled and what parameters should be passed for them. To configure your runners add them to the runners array. For any runner you have, you can add another root key to the config object with parameters for that runner.

If you have assets where you don't want users changing things, just add the asset in the dangerous assets list. Consolr will safeguard it.

Consolr authenticates with Collins through collins-auth. So one would want collins.yml file to be set up as well.

Configuration params are searched in these locations:

• ENV['CONSOLR_CONFIG']
• $HOME/.consolr.yml
• /etc/consolr.yml
• /var/db/consolr.yml

An example consolr.yml file

runners:
  - ipmitool
  - customrunner
ipmitool: /usr/bin/ipmitool
customrunner:
  user: admin
  password: s3cr3t
dangerous_assets:
  - "007117"
dangerous_status:
  - "Allocated"

Consolr will load the runners listed and pick the first runner that says it can manage the node in question by running the can_run? method of the runner.

Running the tool

$ consolr -a 006123 -c

For a full list of actions, look up the help page

$ consolr --help

Runners

Consolr ships with a runner that uses ipmitool to manage servers but there are cases where you might want to extend it. For instance to support your favorite IaaS provider or a private cloud. In this case, you need to write a custom runner and deploy it. The way we do it at Tumblr is to gather our custom runner into a gem and install that gem along with consolr.

A runner is simply a class that extends the Consolr::Runners::Runner base class and is located in the correct module. A very simple example could look like:

module Consolr
  module Runners
    class MyRunner < Runner
    def initialize
      // Set up the runner
    end

    def can_run? node
      // Should return true if this runner can manage `node`
    end

    def verify node
      // Verify that the runner can talk to the node. For instance by pinging
      // the ipmi interface. 
    end

    def on node
      // issue command to power node on
    end

  end
end

All the methods (on, off) etc. that can be implemented can be seen in the Consolr::Runners::Runner base class.

In order to package it up as a gem the directory structure should look like

.
└── lib
└── consolr
    └── runners
        └── myrunner.rb

You'll also need a gemspec file at the root.

Mailing list

http://groups.google.com/group/collins-sm

Bugs

Please report any bugs or submit a request for a patch here : https://github.com/tumblr/collins/issues/

License

Copyright 2016 Tumblr Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.