Category: Ansible

Automating with Ansible: Adding new windows server clients to Prometheus/Grafana

I needed a way to install the Windows_Exporter on our Window systems as well as automating the configuration of the client in Prometheus. I came up with this Ansible playbook to handle this task. I’m sure there may be other ways of doing this and I’m always open to any suggestions. Here is what I have:

Playbooks (Can be downloaded):

win_install_prometheus.yml which calls install_prometheus_part2.yml

I imported a dashboard from Grafana.com, but at the time it only exported the older wmi_exporter. I was able to edit the dashboard and update it to work with the new exporter. Here is my dashboard (in JSON format for importing):

ESXI: How to power on-off vms via cli

To power on a virtual machine from the command line:
List the inventory ID of the virtual machine with the command:

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep <vm name>

Note: The first column of the output shows the vmid.

Check the power state of the virtual machine with the command:

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate <vmid>

Power-on the virtual machine with the command:

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on <vmid>