Global Configuration

Inspeqtor has two configuration points: /etc/inspeqtor/inspeqtor.conf ("global") and /etc/inspeqtor/conf.d/*.inq ("inq").

Global

Global configuration resides in /etc/inspeqtor/inspeqtor.conf. There is where you tell Inspeqtor how to route alerts to you or other teams.

Alert Routes

An alert route tells Inspeqtor how to contact a team. The generic syntax looks like this:

send alerts [to $TEAMNAME] via $CHANNEL with $KEY $VALUE, $KEY $VALUE

• TEAMNAME - if you don't include to $TEAMNAME, it indicates this is the default alert route.
• CHANNEL - Inspeqtor supports two channels: email and gmail. gmail is just an alias for email which automatically fills in Google's SMTP setup for you.
• KEY/VALUE - allow you to configure various elements of the channel

NB: Values with double quotes or commas in them should be quoted: with password "12jk1!,@#2\"123"

gmail

send alerts to ops 
  via gmail with username [email protected], password foobarBaz, email [email protected]

email

send alerts to accounting 
  via email with username bubba, password "correct horse battery staple", hostname smtp.example.com, email [email protected]

Your SMTP server must accept TLS connections on port 587.

Miscellaneous

Use set $KEY $VALUE to twiddle various knobs that Inspeqtor exposes.

# a deploy will timeout after this many seconds
set deploy_length 300

# the number of seconds between scans
set cycle_time 15

# controls the log verbosity
set log_level info

Logging

Inspeqtor logs to syslog. The output location is distro-dependent; on Ubuntu it is /var/log/syslog.

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