New in version 0.8.2.
Be sure to include the specified fields included in the example bcfg2.conf file. These can be specified in either /etc/bcfg2.conf, if it is readable by the webserver user, or /etc/bcfg2-web.conf. Any database supported by Django can be used. If you are not using sqlite (the default choice), please see the Notes on Alternative Databases section below.
Note
Distributed environments can share a single remote database for reporting.
The recommended statistics plugin is DBStats. To use it, add it to the plugins line in your bcfg2.conf. Alternatively, the Statistics plugin can be used in conjunction with a crontab entry to run /usr/sbin/bcfg2-admin reports load_stats.
Detailed installation instructions can be found here.
Note
Reports no longer needs to be installed at the root URL for a given host. Therefore, reports no longer require their own virtual host.
In order to make this work, you will need to specify your web prefix by adding a web_prefix setting in the [statistics] section of your bcfg2.conf.
An example site config is included below for the vhost “reports.mcs.anl.gov”:
<VirtualHost reports.mcs.anl.gov>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mcs.anl.gov
ServerName reports.mcs.anl.gov
DocumentRoot /var/www/reports
<Directory /var/www/reports>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost #you may want to change this
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
ServerSignature Off
# Stop TRACE/TRACK vulnerability
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
<Location "/">
SetHandler python-program
PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE Bcfg2.Server.Reports.settings
PythonDebug On
</Location>
<Location "/site_media/">
SetHandler None
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
The first three lines of this configuration must be customized per site.
The bcfg2-tarball/reports/site_media/ directory needs to be copied to /var/www/reports/site_media/ It could live anywhere; as long as the contents are accessible on the virtual host at /site_media/.
At this point you should be able to point your web browser to the virtualhost you created and see the new reports
entry.wsgi:
import os, sys
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'Bcfg2.Server.Reports.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
Apache conf:
Alias /bcfg2reports/site_media "/path/to/site_media"
<Directory /path/to>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
# If Python is installed in a non-standard prefix:
#WSGIPythonHome /python/prefix
#WSGIPythonPath /python/prefix/lib/python2.6/site-packages
WSGIScriptAlias /bcfg2reports "/another/path/to/entry.wsgi"
If you choose to use a different database, you’ll need to edit /etc/bcfg2.conf. These fields should be updated in the [statistics] section:
The new reporting system was implemented to address a number of deficiencies in the previous system. By storing statistics data in a relational database, we are now able to view and analyze more information about the state of the configuration, including information about previous configuration. Specific features in the new system include:
Unfortunately with all the improvements, there are a few less exciting elements about the new reporting system. The new reporting system moves away from static pages and towards a real web application, which causes mainly problems with dependencies and makes installation more difficult. This should become less of a problem over time as we develop a better installation process for a web application.
The bcfg2-admin tool provides management and maintenance capabilities for the reporting database. A few useful Django commands are provided as well.
bcfg2-reports allows you to retrieve data from the database about clients, and the states of their current interactions. It also allows you to change the expired/unexpired states.
The utility runs as a standalone application. It does, however, use the models from /src/lib/Server/Reports/reports/models.py.
A number of different options can be used to change what bcfg2-reports displays:
Usage: python bcfg2-reports [option] ...
Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):
-a : shows all hosts, including expired hosts
-b NAME : single-host mode - shows bad entries from the
current interaction of NAME
-c : shows only clean hosts
-d : shows only dirty hosts
-e NAME : single-host mode - shows extra entries from the
current interaction of NAME
-h : shows help and usage info about bcfg2-reports
-s NAME : single-host mode - shows bad and extra entries from
the current interaction of NAME
-x NAME : toggles expired/unexpired state of NAME
--badentry=KIND,NAME : shows only hosts whose current interaction has bad
entries in of KIND kind and NAME name; if a single
argument ARG1 is given, then KIND,NAME pairs will be
read from a file of name ARG1
--extraentry=KIND,NAME : shows only hosts whose current interaction has extra
entries in of KIND kind and NAME name; if a single
argument ARG1 is given, then KIND,NAME pairs will be
read from a file of name ARG1
--fields=ARG1,ARG2,... : only displays the fields ARG1,ARG2,...
(name,time,state)
--sort=ARG1,ARG2,... : sorts output on ARG1,ARG2,... (name,time,state)
--stale : shows hosts which haven't run in the last 24 hours
