Ansible Role linuxfabrik.lfops.librenms

This role installs and configures LibreNMS.

Available since LFOps 2.0.0.

Dependent Roles

Any LFOps playbook that installs this role runs these for you. Optional ones can be disabled via the playbook's skip variables.

• Python 3, and the python3-policycoreutils module (required for the SELinux Ansible tasks) must be installed (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.policycoreutils).
• MariaDB must be installed, with a database and a user for said database created (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.mariadb_server).
• A web server (for example Apache httpd) must be installed, with a virtual host for LibreNMS configured (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.apache_httpd).
• PHP version >= 7.3 must be installed (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.php).
• On RHEL-compatible systems, the httpd_can_connect_ldap and httpd_setrlimit SELinux booleans must be enabled (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.selinux).
• On RHEL-compatible systems, the appropriate SELinux file contexts must be set (have a look at librenms__selinux__fcontexts__dependent_var in the defaults/main.yml) (role: linuxfabrik.lfops.selinux).

Tags

librenms

• Installs and configures LibreNMS.
• Triggers: none.

librenms:configure

• Configures LibreNMS.
• Triggers: none.

Mandatory Role Variables

librenms__database_login

• The user account for accessing the MySQL database.
• Type: Dictionary.

librenms__fqdn

• The fully qualified domain name under which LibreNMS is accessible.
• Type: String.

Example:

# mandatory
librenms__database_login:
  username: 'librenms'
  password: 'linuxfabrik'
librenms__fqdn: 'librenms.example.com'

Optional Role Variables

librenms__config_auth_mechanism

• Which authentication mechanism LibreNMS should use. Have a look at https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Authentication/. Note that only one mechanism can be active at the same time. Possible options: active_directory, http-auth, ldap, ldap-authorization, mysql, sso.
• Type: String.
• Default: 'mysql'

librenms__config_rrd_purge

• Number in days of how long to keep old rrd files. 0 disables this feature.
• Type: Number.
• Default: 0

librenms__config_update_channel

• Which update channel LibreNMS should use during automatic updates. Possible options: master, release.
• Type: String.
• Default: 'release'

librenms__database_host

• The host on which the MySQL database is reachable.
• Type: String.
• Default: 'localhost'

librenms__database_name

• The name of the SQL database.
• Type: String.
• Default: 'librenms'

Example:

# optional
librenms__config_auth_mechanism: 'mysql'
librenms__config_rrd_purge: 730
librenms__config_update_channel: 'release'
librenms__database_host: 'localhost'
librenms__database_name: 'librenms'

License

The Unlicense

Author Information

Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich