Ansible Role: web100clt

Installs the NDT C client, with support for a variety of Linux servers.

NDT is a tool for measuring network bandwidth. To use the client, you will need to direct it to a compatible NDT server. To find a publicly available NDT server, consult mlab-ns.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

web100clt_ndt_version: HEAD

The git version of NDT to use to build the NDT C client. This can be any commit ID or tag from the mainline NDT repo.

web100clt_install_dir: /opt

The directory in which to place the built NDT C client binary.

web100clt_temp_dir: /tmp

The temporary directory to use for building files.

web100clt_jansson_version: 2.9

The version of the Jansson JSON library to use.

web100clt_jansson_build_dir: "{{ web100clt_temp_dir }}/jansson-{{ web100clt_jansson_version }}"

The directory in which to build Jansson from source.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

example.yml

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { role: mtlynch.web100clt }

Running Example Playbook

To run the example playbook, example.yml (above), run the following commands:

ansible-galaxy install mtlynch.web100clt
ansible-playbook example.yml

When the playbook completes, the compiled NDT C client (web100clt) will be available on the node at /opt/ndt/src/web100clt.

License

Apache2

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Michael Lynch.