Opsview - Why sync_monitoringscripts.yml takes longer to finish in opsview 6.7.5?

Symptoms

• sync_monitoringscripts.yml takes much longer to complete in opsview 6.7.5 and later

Cause: Enhanced Security

On Opsview version 6.7.5 we have added a security feature where it has to work in an entirely new way, but slower, rsync has been removed as it needs NOPASSWD sudo access, whereas now it uses built-in ansible functionality, which takes longer to complete, therefore if you need to copy over just a specific folder you can use the below command

Solution: rsync

If you need to rsync a folder when you create/modify your plugin, simply use the below command:

rsync -avzh /opt/opsview/monitoringscripts/plugins  root@<x.x.x.x>:/opt/opsview/monitoringscripts/plugins

x.x.x.x will need to be replaced with your opsview IP address as per your host respectively.

rsync options:
-h is outputs numbers in a human-readable format
-v is verbose
-z is to enable compression
-a indicates archive mode. -a option does the following,

• Recursive mode
• Preserves symbolic links
• Preserves permissions
• Preserves timestamp
• Preserves owner and group

we require this, as opsview needs to identify them.

OR

Alternatively, you may use the below:

prerequisite being having the latest support scripts, run the legacy_sync_monitoringscripts playbook.
 
legacy_sync_monitoringscripts has been updated, you can get the latest version by running

curl -sLo- https://downloads.opsview.com/opsview-support/legacy-sync-monitoringscripts.shar | sudo bash -s -

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