mCollective Plugins Wiki¶

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

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

Agents¶

• 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
• Puppetd – enable, disable, run puppet daemons.
• Puppet CA – Manage the Puppet Certificate Authority
• Puppet RAL – Invoke any Puppet provider
• Package – installs, uninstalls and query Operating System packages
• Service – stop, starts and query Operating System services

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

Auditing¶

• AuditCentralRPC – Logs RPC audit logs to a central MongoDB instance

Security¶

• SSH Key – Use your SSH agent and keys to authenticate requests
• None – A plugin for development that provides no security

Authorization¶

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

Tools¶

• Puppet Commander – schedule puppet runs on a group of hosts with enforced concurrency