citellus 0.1.9.355142685.20180318222728

Utility for running set of tests against a Live System or a snapshot/sosreport

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# Introduction

Citellus is a program that should help with system configuration validation on either live system or any sort of snapshot of the filesystem.

Via execution of 'plugins' it reports status on each one execution against the system that gives you an idea on health status, actual problems or problems that will reveal themselves if no preventive action is taken.

Please if you have any idea on any improvements please do not hesitate to open an issue.

## Highlights
- Plugins written in your language of choice.
- Allows to dump output to json file to be processed by other tools.
- Allow to visualize html from json output.
- Check our sample at: [Citellus-www](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/zerodayz/citellus/blob/master/doc/sampleweb/citellus.html)
- Ansible playbook support.
- Save / restore default settings

Check latest changes on [Changelog.md](Changelog.md)

Check for plugins listing on [citellusclient/plugins/](citellusclient/plugins/)

## Installation

- Just clone the git repository and execute it from there 'or'
- use 'pipsi' or create a python virtual env to install package 'citellus'
~~~sh
# pipsi install citellus
Already using interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/iranzo/.local/venvs/citellus/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/iranzo/.local/venvs/citellus/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Collecting citellus
Installing collected packages: citellus
Successfully installed citellus-0.1.0.dev1072
Linked script /home/iranzo/.local/bin/citellus.py
Linked script /home/iranzo/.local/bin/magui.py
Done.
~~~
- Pipsi will take care of installing a virtual environment and link to binary folder so you can call citellus.py or magui.py directly
- Remember that pypi package might not contain all the latests plugins features as the github repo one.
- Container:
- Use our automatically built container in docker hub:
- ```docker run --user=$(id -u) --rm -v $PATHTOSOSREPORT:/data:Z citellus/citellus:latest /data```
- or build your own using the included ```Dockerfile``` in the git checkout.
- ```docker build . -f Dockerfile.centos7-atomic -t citellus:latest``` # (from git checkout, then note image id)
- ```docker run --user=$(id -u) --rm -v $PATHTOSOSREPORT:/data:Z citellus:latest /data```
- Notes about using docker:
- Docker passes as volume the path specified under /data so we do use that parameter with citellus for running the tests.
- The default user id within the container is 10001 and the commands or sosreport permissions doesn't allow that user to gather all the information, so the container is required to run as the current user.

## Usage help

We are developing framework in python, the bash framework has been deprecated. Python framework is the only supported framework.

```
usage: citellus.py [arguments] [-h] [-l] [--list-plugins] [--list-extensions]
[--list-categories] [--description]
[--output FILENAME] [--web] [--blame] [--lang]
[--only-failed] [-v]
[-d {INFO,DEBUG,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}] [-q]
[-i SUBSTRING] [-x SUBSTRING] [-p [0-1000]]
[--dump-config] [--no-config]
[sosreport]

Citellus allows to analyze a directory against common set of tests, useful for
finding common configuration errors

positional arguments:
sosreport

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l, --live Work on a live system instead of a snapshot
--list-plugins Print a list of discovered plugins and exit
--list-extensions Print a list of discovered extensions and exit
--list-categories With list-plugins, also print a list and count of
discovered plugin categories
--description With list-plugins, also outputs plugin description
--output FILENAME, -o FILENAME
Write results to JSON file FILENAME
--web Write results to JSON file citellus.json and copy html
interface in path defined in --output

Output and logging options:
--blame Report time spent on each plugin
--lang Define locale to use
--only-failed, -F Only show failed tests
-v, --verbose Increase verbosity of output (may be specified more
than once)
-d {INFO,DEBUG,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}, --loglevel {INFO,DEBUG,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}
Set log level
-q, --quiet Enable quiet mode

Filtering options:
-i SUBSTRING, --include SUBSTRING
Only include plugins that contain substring
-x SUBSTRING, --exclude SUBSTRING
Exclude plugins that contain substring
-p [0-1000], --prio [0-1000]
Only include plugins are equal or above specified prio

Config options:
--dump-config Dump config to console to be saved into file
--no-config Do not read configuration from file ~/DEVEL
/citellus/citellusclient/citellus.conf or
~/.citellus.conf

```

Check how does it look in an execution at:
[](https://asciinema.org/a/169814)

## Plugins and their descriptions
This is new feature of citellus that will show you available scripts and their description.

```
./citellus.py --list-plugins --description
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'This plugin checks if Apache reaches its MaxRequestWorkers', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/httpd/1406417.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks missconfigured host in nova vs hostname', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceilometer/1483456.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks for outdated ceph packages', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceph/1358697.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks httpd WSGIApplication defined to avoid wrong redirection', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/httpd/1478042.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks for keystone transaction errors on cleanup', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/keystone/1473713.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks for keystone LDAP domain template problem', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/keystone/templates/1519057.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks for wrong auth_url configuration in metadata_agent.ini', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron/1340001.sh'}
{'backend': 'core', 'description': 'Checks python-ryu tracebacks', 'plugin': '/home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron/1450223.sh'}
```

## Doing a live check example
This is an example of execution of Citellus using all openstack and pacemaker tests collections.

```
./citellus.py -q -l -i pacemaker -i openstack
INFO:citellus:using default plugin path
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceilometer_bug_1483456.sh: failed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483456
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceph_bug_1358697.sh: failed
outdated ceph packages: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358697
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/httpd_bug_1478042.sh: skipped
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/keystone_bug_1473713.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1450223.sh: skipped
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1474092.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1489066.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/nova_bug_1474092.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/swift_bug_1500607.sh: failed
swift expirer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500607
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/launchpad/openstack/keystone_bug_1649616.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/openstack/ceilometer/expiration.sh: failed
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
alarm_history_time_to_live = -1
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
event_time_to_live = -1
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
metering_time_to_live = -1
```

## Doing a fs snapshot check example
This is an example of execution of Citellus using ```pacemaker``` and ```openstack``` filter against fs snapshot.

```
./citellus.py -q -i pacemaker -i openstack sosreport-undercloud-0.redhat.local-20171117212710/
INFO:citellus:using default plugin path
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceilometer_bug_1483456.sh: failed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483456
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/ceph_bug_1358697.sh: failed
outdated ceph packages: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358697
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/httpd_bug_1478042.sh: skipped
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/keystone_bug_1473713.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1450223.sh: skipped
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1474092.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/neutron_bug_1489066.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/nova_bug_1474092.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/bugzilla/openstack/swift_bug_1500607.sh: failed
swift expirer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500607
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/launchpad/openstack/keystone_bug_1649616.sh: okay
# /root/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/core/openstack/ceilometer/expiration.sh: failed
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
alarm_history_time_to_live = -1
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
event_time_to_live = -1
ceilometer.conf setting must be updated:
metering_time_to_live = -1
```

## HTML Interface
- Create by using `--output $FOLDER` and `--web`, open the generated `citellus.html`.

<img src="doc/images/www.png" height="40%" border=0>

- Citellus-web now supports the parsing of magui.json.

- It's possible to tell the citellus.html which json to parse by adding json=<jsonfile> as a query string:
~~~
http://host/citellus.html?json=magui.json
~~~

## Ansible playbooks
Citellus can also run Ansible playbooks via extension

The are some additional conventions that are detailed in [ansible-playbooks.md](doc/ansible-playbooks.md) that determine how to code them to be executed in live or snapshoot mode.

Commands have been extended to allow `--list-plugins` to list them and include /exclude filters to work with them.

All of them must end in `.yml`.

~~~
found #1 extensions / found #0 tests at default path
mode: fs snapshot .
# Running extension ansible-playbook
# /home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellus/playbooks/system/clock-ntpstat.yml: skipped
Skipped for incompatible operating mode
~~~

vs

~~~
found #2 extensions with #2 plugins
mode: live
# /home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/ansible/openstack/rabbitmq/ha-policies.yml: okay
# /home/iranzo/DEVEL/citellus/citellusclient/plugins/ansible/system/clock-ntpstat.yml: failed
{"changed": false, "cmd": "ntpstat", "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory",

~~~

## Additional resources
- Devconf.cz 2018 Presentation:
- Slot link [devconf.cz!!](https://devconfcz2018.sched.com/event/DJXG/detect-pitfalls-of-osp-deployments-with-citellus)
- Slides <doc/devconfcz2018-presentation-revealmd.md>
- Recording <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDzzqrUdn5A>
- Blog posts
- <http://iranzo.github.io/blog/2017/07/26/Citellus-framework-for-detecting-known-issues/>
- <https://iranzo.github.io/blog/2017/07/31/Magui-for-analysis-of-issues-across-several-hosts/>
- <https://iranzo.github.io/blog/2017/08/17/Jenkins-for-running-CI-tests/>
- <https://iranzo.github.io/blog/2017/10/26/i18n-and-bash8-in-bash/>
- <https://iranzo.github.io/blog/2018/01/16/recent-changes-in-magui-and-citellus/>

## Contact us!!
You can reach to us via:
- irc at #citellus in Freenode
- our mailing list:
- <mailto:[e-mail]>
- <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/citellus-dev>