What is the Static Topology StackPack?

The Static Topology StackPack reads topology information from an external CSV file and synchronizes the data with StackState.

Configuration

Static topology is read from two CSV files:

1. A CSV file containing components

2. A CSV file containing relations

Both CSV files are read to form a topology. The component and relation CSV files require a CSV header. The header specification is as follows:

Component file specification

• id - The component's unique identifier

• name - The component's name

• type - The type of a component, e.g. VM, datastore, rack, etc.

• domain (Optional) - The StackState domain where the component should be visualized

• layer (Optional) - The StackState layer in where the component should be visualized

• environment (Optional) - The StackState environment in where the component should be visualized

• All other fields are added as meta data on the component

Note: the fields are expected to be in lowercase letters.

Relation file specification

• sourceid - The component's identifier that is used to create a relation from. The identifier has to match the component's id in the component CSV.

• targetid - The component's identifier that is used to create a relation to. The identifier has to match the component's id in the component CSV.

• type - The type of a relation, e.g. uses, 'depends on'

Note: the fields are expected to be in lowercase letters.

Example CSV files

Component csv:

id,name,type,layer,domain,environment
1,component1,vm,machines,mydomain,myenvironment
2,component2,vm,machines,mydomain,myenvironment

Relation csv:

sourceid,targetid,type
1,2,uses

Setup

Configuration

1. Configure the Agent to read CSV topology files. Edit conf.d/static_topology.yaml:

   Static topology from file

   init_config:

instances:

• type: csv components_file: /path/to/components.csv relations_file: /path/to/relations.csv delimiter: ';'

  tags:

  - optional_tag1

  - optional_tag2

• Restart the Agent

Configuration Options

• type - Set to csv for parsing CSV typed files

• components_file - Absolute path to CSV file containing topology components

• relations_file - Absolute path to CSV file containing topology relations

• delimiter - CSV field delimiter

• tags (Optional) - StackState labels to add to each component and relation read from the CSV files.

Validation

Execute the info command and verify that the integration check has passed. The output of the command should contain a section similar to the following:

Checks

[...]

static_topology

• instance #0 [OK]

Release notes

StaticTopology StackPack v2.3.1 (2021-04-02)

• Improvement: Enable auto grouping on generated views.

• Improvement: Common bumped from 2.2.3 to 2.5.1

• Improvement: StackState min version bumped to 4.3.0

StaticTopology StackPack v2.2.1 (2020-08-18)

• Feature: Introduced the Release notes pop up for customer

StaticTopology StackPack v2.2.0 (2020-08-04)

• Improvement: Deprecated StackPack specific layers and introduced a new common layer structure.

• Improvement: Replace resolveOrCreate with getOrCreate.

StaticTopology StackPack v2.1.0 (2020-04-23)

• Improvement: Upgrade the requirement and documentation of Static Topology to use AgentV2.