Ansible-cmdb v1.4: a host overview generator for ansible-managed hosts

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s setup module and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data.

You can visit the Github repo, or view an example output here.

This is the v1.4 release of ansible-cmdb, which brings a bunch of bug fixes and some new features:

• Support for host inventory patterns (e.g. foo[01:04].bar.com)
• Support for ‘vars’ and ‘children’ groups.
• Support passing a directory to the -i param, in which case all the files in that directory are interpreted as one big hosts file.
• Support for the use of local jquery files instead of via a CDN. Allows you to view the hosts overview in your browser using file://. See README.md for info on how to enable it (hint: ansible-cmdb -p local_js=1).
• Add -f/–fact-caching flag for compatibility with fact_caching=jsonfile fact dirs (Rowin Andruscavage).
• The search box in the html_fancy template is now automatically focussed.
• Show memory to one decimal to avoid “0g” in low-mem hosts.
• Templates can now receive parameters via the -p option.
• Strip ports from hostnames scanned from the host inventory file.
• Various fixes in the documentation.
• Fixes for Solaris output (memory and disk).

I would like to extend my gratitude to the following contributors:

• Sebastian Gumprich
• Rowin Andruscavage
• Cory Wagner
• Jeff Palmer
• Sven Schliesing

If you’ve got any questions, bug reports or whatever, be sure to open a new issue on Github!