Results Sender

The Results-Sender forwards results on from the collector to the Orchestrator. It also provides a backup ability to store durable messages in case the connection to the Orchestrator is down.

Dependencies Copied

The Results-Sender requires access to the MessageQueue and Registry. Please make sure these packages are installed, configured and running before attempting to start the opsview-resultssender process.

Installation Copied

Refer to Advanced Automated Installation.

Configuration Copied

The user configuration options should be set in /opt/opsview/resultssender/etc/resultssender.yaml. Default values are shown in /opt/opsview/resultssender/etc/resultssender.defaults.yaml, but changes should not be made here since the file will get overwritten on package update.

The following options can be set:

Additional configuration Copied

The results-cache-queue is defined to have an additional messages_ttl_secs setting that will remove messages from that queue.

This is set using the queue additional params (for example, params: message_ttl_secs=1800)

Management Copied

Configuration Copied

DPKGs Copied

Watchdog service files are now managed by the package, doing a remove would leave the watchdog service file behind with a .save extension. Purging the package will remove it. The package managed config files are as follows

/opt/opsview/watchdog/etc/services/opsview-resultssender.conf

RPMs Copied

Watchdog service files are now managed by the package. Any modifications will be saved at upgrade and remove processes with the .rpmnew and .rpmsave extensions correspondingly.

/opt/opsview/watchdog/etc/services/opsview-resultssender.conf

Service administration Copied

As root, start, stop and restart the service using:

/opt/opsview/watchdog/bin/opsview-monit <start|stop|restart> opsview-resultssender
["Opsview"] ["User Guide"]

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