Manage inventory with Wallaby

Wallaby will manage your configuration, as well as an inventory of your machines. It can differentiate between machines that are expected to be present and those that opportunistically appear.

Build the roster with wallaby add-node –

$ wallaby add-node node0.local node1.local node2.local
Adding the following node: node0.local
Console Connection Established...
Adding the following node: node1.local
Adding the following node: node2.local
$ for i in $(seq 3 10); do wallaby add-node node$i.local; done
Adding the following node: node3.local
Console Connection Established...
Adding the following node: node4.local
Console Connection Established...
...

List expected nodes (provisioned) –

$ wallaby inventory
Console Connection Established...
P        Node name                 Last checkin
-        ---------                 ------------
+      node0.local Wed Jan 11 07:32:33 -0500 20
+      node1.local Thu Jan 05 12:15:00 -0500 20
+     node10.local Wed Jan 11 07:31:56 -0500 20
+      node2.local Wed Jan 11 07:31:56 -0500 20
+      node3.local Wed Jan 11 07:15:21 -0500 20
+      node4.local Wed Jan 11 07:31:42 -0500 20
+      node5.local Wed Jan 11 07:16:47 -0500 20
+      node6.local                        never
+      node7.local Wed Jan 11 07:32:33 -0500 20
+      node8.local Wed Jan 11 07:32:33 -0500 20
+      node9.local Wed Jan 11 07:30:47 -0500 20
-      robin.local Thu Dec 15 14:11:35 -0500 20
-      woods.local Tue Jan 10 20:33:47 -0500 20

List opportunistic, bonus nodes (unprovisioned) –

$ wallaby inventory -o unprovisioned
Console Connection Established...
P        Node name                 Last checkin
-        ---------                 ------------
-      robin.local Thu Dec 15 14:11:35 -0500 20
-      woods.local Tue Jan 10 20:33:47 -0500 20

Provisioned nodes that have never checked in, maybe setup failed –

$ wallaby inventory -c 'last_checkin == 0 && provisioned'
Console Connection Established...
P        Node name                 Last checkin
-        ---------                 ------------
+      node6.local                        never

Provisioned node that have not checked in for the past 4 hours, maybe machine is down –

$ wallaby inventory -c 'last_checkin > 0 && last_checkin < 4.hours_ago && provisioned'
Console Connection Established...
P        Node name                 Last checkin
-        ---------                 ------------
+      node1.local Thu Jan 05 12:15:00 -0500 20

Unprovisioned nodes that have not checked in for 48 hours, candidates for wallaby remove-node –

$ wallaby inventory -c 'last_checkin < 48.hours_ago && !provisioned'
Console Connection Established...
P        Node name                 Last checkin
-        ---------                 ------------
-      robin.local Thu Dec 15 14:11:35 -0500 20 

Enjoy.

Tags: Inventory, Tutorial, Wallaby