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[ypid-geberit]

Hi

I am working on deploying the Checkmk Agent on GNU/Linux systems with Saltstack. For this I checked your presentation. Very cool stuff :) You called a Salt State ensure-check-mk-agent-installed in your demo. I cannot find that state in this repo?

I would say more work in needed to fully cover the agent deployment use case. But that is no accusation or demand from me in any way. I am already quite happy that Checkmk is open and even active in supporting this.

The proper way to go forward with this is to make this repo a Salt Formula. I have not yet reached the experience in Salt that I have with Ansible but I am getting there. I would like to help with this Salt State.

When I checked, https://gitlab.dwbn.org/salt-formulas/salt-check_mk_agent-formula currently covers my use case best. I am in the process of reworking that Formula (starting with SLES support, agent output encryption, systemd support and general improvements). I will also check how salt-checkmk can help here.

CC: @tobstone (You as the author of salt-check_mk_agent-formula are probably also interested in this)

[PhilippLemke]

Hi Robin, Thanks for feedback and sry for the delay, I'm currently on vacation. But I have good news, if you are waiting for updates like "ensure-check-mk-agent-installed", I have it already in schedule for October. A State Module fo rCheck MK Site Management will be also released this month. If you can use this stuff and integrate it to Salt Formular, that would be great. Philipp Am Mo., 30. Sept. 2019 um 10:13 Uhr schrieb Robin Schneider < [email protected]>:

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Hi I am working on deploying the Checkmk Agent on GNU/Linux systems with Saltstack. For this I checked your presentation <https://invidious.13ad.de/watch?v=WdBd7NnVvEA>. Very cool stuff :) You called a Salt State ensure-check-mk-agent-installed in your demo. I cannot find that state in this repo? I would say more work in needed to fully cover the agent deployment use case. But that is no accusation or demand from me in any way. I am already quite happy that Checkmk is open and even active in supporting this. The proper way to go forward with this is to make this repo a Salt Formula <https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/conventions/formulas.html>. I have not yet reached the experience in Salt that I have with Ansible but I am getting there. I would like to help with this Salt State. When I checked, https://gitlab.dwbn.org/salt-formulas/salt-check_mk_agent-formula currently covers my use case best. I am in the process of reworking that Formula (starting with SLES support and general improvements). I will also check how salt-checkmk can help here. CC: @tobstone <https://github.com/tobstone> (You as the author of salt-check_mk_agent-formula are probably also interested in this) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABS3HYG7U4TCXX4LOAVVAMLQMGYLVANCNFSM4I3XSR5Q> .

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[tobstone]

hi robin, do you have a public repo for your work?

[ypid-geberit]

@PhilippLemke Enjoy your vacation and thanks for your feedback. I just wanted to be sure that I don’t miss anything.

@tobstone Not yet unfortunate. Hopefully next week month year.

[ypid-geberit]

Sorry for the delay. I had to get permission to publish those changes along with other distractions. But I still need to rebase/cleanup onto your latest changes and test it again, but at least it is public already: https://github.com/ypid-geberit/salt-check_mk_agent-formula

Right now I would like to deploy CEE using SaltStack. Do you have something I can start with? This time I can publish my changes right away :)