The Ansible logs from all Configuration Framework Service (CFS) sessions are recorded using ARA Records Ansible (ARA), which provides an Ansible friendly way to view the logs for CFS. ARA is an open-source log collector, API, and UI, specifically for collecting and parsing Ansible logs. For more on ARA in general, see the ARA home page.
The ARA UI can be accessed via https://ara.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME.
Additionally, links that include filters for specific components or sessions are included in the component and session records.
{
"configuration_status": "configured",
"desired_config": "management-csm-1.5.0",
"enabled": true,
"error_count": 0,
"id": "x3001c0s39b0n0",
"logs": "ara.cmn.mug.hpc.amslabs.hpecorp.net/hosts?name=x3001c0s39b0n0",
"tags": {}
}
The logs field in the above output is an example of a link including a filter for a specific component name (xname).
The links in records can be disabled by setting the include_ara_links option to false in the CFS Global Options if ARA is not being used.
ARA is a plugin for Ansible that can easily be disabled if needed.
(ncn-mw#) Edit the cfs-default-ansible-cfg ConfigMap.
kubectl edit cm cfs-default-ansible-cfg -n services
Remove /usr/share/ansible/plugins/ara from the list of callback_plugins.
callback_plugins = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/callback
Save the modified ConfigMap.
After the modified ConfigMap has been saved, all new CFS sessions that are created will no longer record logs to ARA.