On 1/26/20 3:11 PM, Shifa Shaikh wrote: > Dick Hi, > > My requirement is not about configuring a webserver. > > It is to maintain a check on a set of files. If the file changes by checksum > or permissions I wish to trigger an alert. > > Thus, my ansible will stat the file and then compare the checksum and mode > that was previously stored in the > include_vars file. > > If they match we are good else we will trigger an alert. > > Thus, I want to understand if my approach/format of storing mode and checksum > information for all files on all servers > good? if not please propose how should i design the include_vars files so I > could read the checksum and mode of a file > on a particular IP.
Why don't use an existing checksum tool (e.g Google for linux ids checksum
tools) ?
Regards
Racke
>
> On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 4:25:25 AM UTC+5:30, Dick Visser wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> The information you've provided seems to contain several cases of
> wheel reinvention.
> Rather than helping you do that, please explain what you are REALLY
> looking to achieve.
> The file names in your example suggest: "configuring a web server".
> In which case, a few template tasks and a handler might be all you need.
>
> Dick
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 00:10, Shifa Shaikh <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> > I use the stat module to read multiple files statistics from each
> remote server.
> >
> > Thus, I'm able to get the file mode and checksum value of say 3 files
> on host1 and 2 files on host2.
> >
> > I wish to know what is a good way to create/construct an include_vars
> file so that I can easily read back each
> file's mode and checksum for any given server?
> >
> > I thought of constructing a myvars.yaml as below:
> >
> > ---
> > host1:
> > name: /tmp/conf/httpd.conf
> > checksum: 79783482382789273
> > mode: 0744
> > name: /tmp/conf/extra/httpd.conf
> > checksum: 112312382789273
> > mode: 0754
> >
> >
> >
> > host2:
> >
> > name: /tmp/conf/httpd.conf
> > checksum: 89662ff9273
> > mode: 0774
> > name: /tmp/conf/extra/httpd.conf
> > checksum: 82094810498
> > mode: 0754
> >
> >
> > I can construct the myvars.yaml as I like but the challenge is how can
> I read the values of the individual file
> name on a given hots?
> >
> > Any suggestions for construct myvars.yaml differently and reading
> individual file details in a playbook will be of
> great help.
> >
> > Thank you !!
> >
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