mCollective Plugins Wiki¶

The general process to follow when installing plugins can be found here

Agents¶

• Apt – Perform various tasks for apt/dpkg
• File Manager – create, touch, remove and retrieve information about files
• IP Tables Junkfilter Manager – Add, removes and queries rules on a specific chain
• Net Test – Performs network reachability testing
• NRPE – Runs NRPE commands using MCollective as transport
• Process – Manage server processes
• Puppet – enable, disable, run puppet daemons.
• Puppet CA – Manage the Puppet Certificate Authority
• Package – installs, uninstalls and query Operating System packages
• Packages – install, update, uninstall multiple packages in one run with fine version/revision control
• Service – stop, starts and query Operating System services
• Spam Assassin – Perform various tasks for Spam Assassin
• Stomp Utilities – helpers and utilities for the STOMP connector

Fact Sources¶

• Facter via YAML – Access Facter variables as YAML
• Facter – Use Puppet Labs Facter as a fact source
• Ohai – Use OpsCode Ohai as a fact source

Auditing¶

• Central RPC Log – Logs RPC audit logs to a central log file or MongoDB instance
• Central LogStash log – Logs RPC audit logs to a central LogStash instance

Authorization¶

• Action Policy – Authorization plugin with fine grain per action ACLs

Data¶

• Puppet Resource Status – Datasource to facilitate discovery of machines based on the state of Puppet resources
• Sysctl Value – Datasource to retrieve values from any Linux sysctl
• Agent Meta Data – Datasource to retrieve meta data about currently installed agents for nodes

Discovery¶

• Registration Data in MongoDB – Discover against registration data in a MongoDB NoSQL server

Security¶

• None – A plugin for development that provides no security

Registration¶

• Meta Data – Sends agents, facts and classes lists to registration agents
• Registration Monitor – Writes registration data to file and a Nagios check
• Registration Data in MongoDB – Writes registration data to a MongoDB NoSQL server

Tools¶

• Puppet Commander – schedule puppet runs on a group of hosts with enforced concurrency
• SSH – Discovery assisted ssh