nav-argus-glue 0.2.2

An Argus glue service for Network Administration Visualized

NAV <-> Argus glue service

This is a glue service for integration between Argus, the alert aggregation server, and NAV (Network Administration Visualized), the network monitoring software suite provided by Uninett.

How it works

navargus acts as a NAV event engine export script, accepting stacked, JSON-serialized alert objects on its STDIN. When configured as the export script in eventengine.conf, the event engine will feed navargus a continuous stream of NAV alerts as they are generated, and navargus will use these to either create new incidents in the Argus API, or resolve existing ones as needed.

Configuration

navargus is configured via navargus.yml. Since navargus is designed to run in conjunction with NAV's event engine, this config file must be placed in NAV's config directory (typically /etc/nav).

In the Argus admin UI, you need to create a new "Source system" for your NAV installation. This will also automatically create an Argus user account for your NAV installation. Now, use the Argus admin UI to also create an authentication token for your user.

navargus.yml must at minimum contain the base URL of your Argus API server and the API token you generated to be able to talk to the Argus API. An example:

---
api:
    url: https://argus.example.com/api/v1
    token: very-long-and-secret-string

You can now test whether navargus is able to read this configuration and actually talk to the API using the command navargus --test-api.

See the navargus.example.yml file for more configuration examples.