The Polymetric Dashboard

I wanted to blast the dashboard out to a bunch of my lab VMs this morning so I used ansible, I put code snippet here in case its useful.

The full post and introduction for using ansible is here; Ansible Post

I admit this is a bit of a hack but shows some useful syntax.

polykit-install.yml

---
### Main Task - instal polymetric dashboard ###
- debug: msg="Start polykit-install.yml"

- name: local path on laptop for tar.gzip of dashboard kit relative to ansible root
  set_fact:
    local_package_path: ./z-packages

- debug: 
    msg: "{{ local_package_path }}"

# hack! ASSUME only one instance per host!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!!

- name: get instance name
  shell:
    ccontrol qlist | awk -F '^' '{print $1}'
  register: instance_name

- debug: var=instance_name.stdout    

- name: get instance path (add ./mgr )
  shell:
    ccontrol qlist | awk -F '^' '{print $2}'
  register: instance_path

- debug: var=instance_path.stdout    

- name: set base path
  set_fact:
    base_path: "{{ instance_path.stdout }}/mgr/polykit"

# hack! ASSUME only one instance per host!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!!


# Create install directory on target
- name: Create install directory
  file:
    dest="{{ base_path }}"
    mode={{ 777 }}
    state=directory

# Copy polykit file to install directory
- name: Copy polykit.tar.gz to install directory
  copy:
    src="{{ local_package_path }}/polykit-v1.0.0.tar.gz"
    dest="{{ base_path }}"
    remote_src=False

# Unarchive
- name: Unarchive polykit database
  unarchive:
    src="{{ base_path }}/polykit-v1.0.0.tar.gz"
    dest="{{ base_path }}"
    creates="{{ base_path }}/polykit-v1.0.0/DashboardInstaller.xml"
    remote_src=yes


# Run installer

# Build text file

- name: build csession file line at a time
  shell:
    echo "set status = \$System.OBJ.Load(\""{{ base_path }}/polykit-v1.0.0/DashboardInstaller.xml"\", \"ck\")" >"{{ base_path }}"/polykit-inst.txt

- shell:
    echo "set status = {{ '#' }}{{ '#' }}class(SYS.Monitor.DashboardInstaller).Install(\""{{ base_path }}/polykit-v1.0.0"\",0)" >> "{{ base_path }}"/polykit-inst.txt

- shell:
    echo "h">>"{{ base_path }}"/polykit-inst.txt

- shell:  
    cat "{{ base_path }}"/polykit-inst.txt
  register: polyinst_check
- debug: var=polyinst_check.stdout_lines

- name: Install dashboard
  shell:  
    cat "{{ base_path }}/polykit-inst.txt" | csession "{{ instance_name.stdout }}" -U %SYS
  register: polyinst_install
- debug: var=polyinst_install.stdout_lines

Thank you, Murray!

You need:

• NodeJS
• Python 2
• npm, gyp
• C++ compiler