Using Sysinspect

Note

This section explains how to use Sysinspect in “solo” mode and in the network.

Sysinspect can be used in two modes:

  1. Solo mode, where the entire model is for only one “box” or hardware

  2. Network-connected cluster, where entities can consist from more than one element and Sysinspect needs to gather information from different places in order to construct a final answer about a specific entity. Such entity, for example, can be the entire network itself.

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So you wrote a Model, using “Model Description” documentation and placed it to /etc/sysinspect/models directory on your Master machine as my_model.

Then just call the entire model across all minions:

sysinspect "my_model"

You can call only a subset of your module, such as a specific state of a specific entity. For example:

sysinspect "my_model/my_entity/my_state"

For more information go ahead and dive in!

Diving In

To better understand how to use Sysinspect in those situation, read through the following sections: