ask: proxy setting in newrelic-infra.yml

[8mccm8]

HI all

how can I setup proxy in /etc/newrelic-infra.yml ?

thanks

[amolero-nr]

Hi @8mccm8!

We configure the infrastructure agent's proxy settings with an ansible environment variable (HTTPS_PROXY, see it here) when executing the ansible playbook, so that users don't have to modify the /etc/newrelic-infra.yml by themselves.

If for any reason you still want to add a proxy config to the /etc/newrelic-infra.yml, please take a look at these docs:

• Infrastructure Agent's config file.
• Infrastructure Agent's config file template, specifically the proxy config.

[8mccm8]

HI @amolero-nr

I set HTTPS_PROXY and the installation was done correctly BUT the proxy directive was not set in /etc/newrelic-infra.yml and my agent can't send metrics to the API...

I willl check again tomorrow.

[amolero-nr]

Hey @8mccm8,

In my test, after setting the HTTPS_PROXY env var like this below in my playbook:

- name: Install New Relic
  hosts: linux
  roles:
    - role: newrelic.newrelic_install
      vars:
        targets:
          - infrastructure
          - logs
      environment:
        NEW_RELIC_API_KEY: "..."
        NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID: "..."
        NEW_RELIC_REGION: "..."
        HTTPS_PROXY: "http://MY_PROXY:PORT"

I got the config option successfully added to my newrelic-infra.yml as follows:

enable_process_metrics: true
status_server_enabled: true
status_server_port: 18003
license_key: < ... >
custom_attributes:
  nr_deployed_by: ansible-install

proxy: http://172.31.45.182:3128         #  <-- HERE

[8mccm8]

hi @amolero-nr

definitely not:

    - role: roles/newrelic.newrelic-infra_new  
      vars:  
        targets:  
          - infrastructure  
        install_timeout_seconds: 1000  
        verbosity: debug  
      environment:  
        NEW_RELIC_API_KEY: "{{nrinfragent_env.NEW_RELIC_API_KEY }}"  
        NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID: "{{ nrinfragent_env.NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID }}"  
        http_proxy: "{{ proxy_env_redhat.http_proxy }}"  
        https_proxy: "{{ proxy_env_redhat.https_proxy }}"  

cat /etc/newrelic-infra.yml
enable_process_metrics: true
status_server_enabled: true
status_server_port: 18003
license_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
custom_attributes:
  nr_deployed_by: ansible-install

I must add this if I want proxy in my config:

roles:

    - role: roles/newrelic.newrelic-infra_new
      vars:
        targets:
          - infrastructure
        tags:
          proxy: "{{ proxy_env_redhat.https_proxy }}"
        install_timeout_seconds: 1000
        verbosity: debug
      environment:
        NEW_RELIC_API_KEY: "{{nrinfragent_env.NEW_RELIC_API_KEY }}"
        NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID: "{{ nrinfragent_env.NEW_RELIC_ACCOUNT_ID }}"
        http_proxy: "{{ proxy_env_redhat.http_proxy }}"
        https_proxy: "{{ proxy_env_redhat.https_proxy }}"

and I can see the CLI called with the tag option with proxy value...

[amolero-nr]

This brief AWS Linux instance demo shows it works as expected.

[amolero-nr]

What is your OS?

[8mccm8]

redhat 8 ansible 2.9

[amolero-nr]

Unfortunately, we don't support Ansible 2.9

[8mccm8]

ok! strange to be not aligned with an ansible version distributed for professional environment like RedHat!

[Julien4218]

We follow the non-EOL ansible version https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-support-matrix

[8mccm8]

Thx all... l never really checked these stories of packages licenses etc now it's done