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:
messages_ttl: Messages older than this will be discarded by the results sender.results_in_queue: The message-queue configuration to receive results.results_cache_queue: The message-queue configuration to send/receive messages when the out queue connection is down.results_out_queue: The message-queue configuration to send results.results_live_queue: The message-queue configuration to send messages to results-live (Acknowledgements and Downtime messages).results_dispatcher_out_queue: The message-queue configuration to send messages to results-dispatcher for populating additional information.registry: Connection configuration for the Registry.logging: Component logging configuration.
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