pandorafms/pandora_server/util/load

Purpose of this toolkit

This directory contains configuration files and small scripts to generate an environment with simulated data for testing purposes.

Generation of XML files to simulate agent load

There is a tool that comes configured with Pandora FMS to generate test data (pandora_xml_stress) and that generates XML. It has different options and in this directory is provided a configuration file and all the dictionaries and additional files to generate data of 300 agents, with pseudo-random names (like for example "7fb8a1a734c24cc22a5c75eb").

These agents are defined in the "pandora_xml_stress.agents" file. If you want less agents, you can delete elements in this file.

To execute the XML generation manually from the code repository:

cd pandorafms/pandora_server/util/load perl ../pandora_xml_stress.pl pandora_xml_stress.conf

This will generate 300 XML in the /var/spool/pandora/data_in directory.

If you create a scheduled execution of this command every 5 minutes (e.g. through cron), keep in mind that if the PandoraFMS server stops, it could have hundreds of thousands of XML files pending to be processed.

Create /etc/cron.d/pandora_stress with this content:

*/5 * * * * root

Generation of groups and users

The script 'create_usersandgroups.sh' will take a list of names from the file 'usernames.txt' and through CLI will create those users in the local Pandora FMS.

On the other hand, it will also create a series of groups, taking as source the names of the file 'groupnames.txt'. It will associate to each user a group of the existing ones with the profile "Operator (Read").

Finally, it will take all the agents available in Pandora FMS and it will distribute them in an equal and random way among the available groups.

You should only run it once:

cd pandorafms/pandora_server/util/load ./create_userandgroups.sh