pjorg-puppet-sumo

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
   • What sumo affects
   • Beginning with sumo
4. Development

Overview

This module installs and configures the Sumo Logic collector agent on a node, and also places source configuration under Puppet management. It also is designed to work with existing package managment rather than relying on downloading binaries directly from the Sumo Logic service and running the installer.

Module Description

The Sumo Logic collector is a small agent that is installed on hosts that facilitates the ingestion of log data into the Sumo Logic service.

There are a number of ways to install this agent. This module is intended for use cases where native package management solutions are preferred over running an installer. Initial support is limited to the RedHat OS family, which uses RPM packages.

Additionally, there is support for managing log sources within a node's manifest. This may be useful for ensuring that all nodes of a specific class always have certain log files collected.

Setup

What sumo affects

• Installs the SumoCollector package via yum
• Creates the sumo.conf file to allow for initial collector setup
• Creates a source sync directory and manages JSON files within it, which controls a collector's active log sources (this disables source management from within the Sumo Logic UI)

Beginning with sumo

Before starting, you must make the collector RPM available to your hosts' package management. For RedHat-family operating systems, this means that yum install SumoCollector should work. If it does not, this module will not function.

After that, a basic collector instance can be installed and configured by including the sumo class in a node's manifest, and passing credentials to be used to attach the collector to your Sumo Logic account.

A basic example, using username/password and without any sources:

node mynode.lab.local {
  class sumo {
    email    => 'user@example.com',
    password => 'usersPassword123!', 
  }
}

A more advanced example, using a Sumo accessid and with a local file source:

node mynode.lab.local {
  class sumo {
    accessid  => 'SumoAccessId',
    accesskey => 'SumoAccessKey_123ABC/&!',
  }

  sumo::localfilesource { 'messages':
    sourceName => 'message_log'
    pathExpression => '/var/log/messages',
  }
}

Development

Contributions expanding the module to use other portions of the Sumo Logic API and/or extending support to other platforms are welcome.