Services actions

Services action plugin for Automatron. This plugin provides a wrapper for executing actions on specified servicies. Actions such as restart, start, reload, or stop.

Installation

Simply copy the services.py script to the plugins/actions/ directory.

Usage

The services.py plugin is used to perform actions on system services such as nginx, docker or postfix. You can use this plugin to perform any action supported by the underlying system management utility such as Systemd. This plugin is useful when you have an environment that has a mix of Linux versions and you wish to use one runbook to interact with system services.

OS Support

• Linux

Runbook example

The below is an example of using the services.py plugin.

actions:
  restart_nginx:
    execute_from: target
    trigger: 0
    frequency: 300
    call_on:
      - CRITICAL
    type: plugin
    plugin: services.py
    args: --service nginx --action restart

The above would restart Nginx after a CRITICAL event.

Required Arugments

This plugin requires 2 arguments.

args: --service <service name> --action <aciton to perform>