Sillyfacter prints JSON facts related to the state of the system. The state here means process running on the host, their open connections and files. Also users logged in, mount points on the host etcetra. This information is useful in mapping out dependencies.
Project description
Sillyfacter prints JSON facts related to the state of the system. The state here mean overview of the process running, their connections and open files. You can also pass mongodb url to store in database.
Current focus on:
Portable *.nix
Expandable using custom agents/modules
Output/filter to stdout or mongo db using pymongo or (Celery?)
For more info: sillyfacter at github
Installation
Requirements
Desgined in Python 2.7, for *nix systems. Tested on Mac, RHEL, Solaris. The Python package dependencies are:
netaddr
netifaces
psutil
pymongo
pip >= v1.5.1
But these are taken care by pip during installation
Using pip
# Needs pip v1.5 # So just upgrade it anyways... pip install --ugrade pip pip install --upgrade --allow-all-external --allow-unverified netifaces sillyfacter # --upgrade ensures latest versions # --allow-all-external and --allow-unverified is needed for netifaces :-(
From source:
On Debian: Ensure following things are installed:
apt-get install python-dev build-essential
apt-get install libbz2-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libreadline6-dev ncurses-dev
Download installer bash script and run it
wget https://raw.github.com/hihellobolke/sillyfacter/master/installer.bash
bash installer.bash
Usage
Just execute sillyfacter and it should output result back in JSON. If you like to store output directly in a MongoDB, pass mongodb url using --out mongodb://mydb/. Otherwise it just dumps JSON to console.
Simple JSON output
$ sillyfacter { "_scan_id": "gautsing-mac", "_scan_time": "1390293214", "arch": "x86_64", "boottime": "1390206976", "cpu": 8, "cpu_used": 10.2, "domainname": "", "fqdn": "gautsing-mac", "hardwareisa": "i386", "hardwaremodel": "i386", "has": { "filesystem": [ { "dev": "/dev/disk0s2",
Storing facts directly in MongoDB
Stores JSON facts directly in to mongodb (uses pymongo). The document *_id* defaults to hostname fact, collection defaults to “sillyfacter”. Documents are overwritten. Timestamps are converted to Datetime so their types are preserved :-)
$ sillyfacter --out mongodb://localhost/factdb { "_info": { "_id": "gautsing-mac", "collection": "sillyfacter", "db": "factdb", "host": "localhost", "port": 27017 }, "status": "Save success", "url": "mongodb://localhost/factdb" }
Help?
And yes there some –help too.
$ python sillyfacter --help usage: sillyfacter [-h] [--modules MODULES] [--out OUT] [--log LOG] [--verbose] [--strict] [--debug] [--scan {auto,new,last}] [--raw] [--version] Sillyfacter fetches facts about the state of the system. Gathers process, open file, socket info and then outputs a JSON (currently). Designed for dependency mappings. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --modules MODULES comma seperated list of modules to be executed. Default list is "all" which is expanded to include "process,network,user,os,filesystem" --out OUT URL for the backend Mongo database (E.g. mongodb://localhost:27017/). If nothing is supplied it dumps JSON to stdout --log LOG file to write logs to, otherwise logs are written to console --verbose, -v Use multiple "-v" options --strict If selected will error out on every exeption Note: Useful when debugging only [False] --debug If selected will emit very debugging logs if exception are encountered. Note: Useful when debugging only [False] --scan {auto,new,last} [NOT IMPLEMENTED] choose the scan type, usually "auto" is the best. [auto] --raw [NOT IMPLEMENTED] Use raw output, default is false --version show program's version number and exit
Motivation
Why no facter in pure Python that outputs in JSON?
Contributors
Email: g@ut.am
More info: https://github.com/hihellobolke/sillyfacter
License
This is Apache Licenced.
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