Camunda Cockpit Command-Line Client

The Camunda Cockpit web application enables easy resolution of isolated incidents. However, it's much more common to have many incidents arise simultaneously, along with similar exceptions messages — for example, "Read timed out." Retrying multiple incidents using the Cockpit web app is very cumbersome. That's why we've created this command line client, which simplifies bulk-handling of incidents using Camunda Process Engine's REST API.

Featured operations. This tool supports the following:

• Listing process instances (--list / -l)
• Increasing job retries (--retry / -r)
• Canceling process instances (--cancel / -c)

Select process instances to operate on with these:

• Process instance id (--process-instance-id / -i)
• Part of an error message from a failed job (--message / -m)
• Time range (--from-timestamp and --to-timestamp, both in ISO-8601 format)

###Development Status ####Login/Configuration

This tool supports cookie-based authorization of the Camunda Cockpit and OAuth. Configure the base url and process engine name in a configuration file. The script tries to read the configuration from the following two places:

• the user's home directory, as ~/.cockpit-client.yaml
• relative to this Python script, as cockit-client.yaml

The authors have tested and used the following script/configuration file in production with version 7.1 and 7.4 of the Camunda engine. In this example, four process engines run for the live instance:

live:
    url: 'https://live.example.com/engine-rest'
    engines: [engine1, engine2, engine3, engine4]
    auth: 'oauth'
staging:
    url: 'https://staging.example.com/camunda'
    api-path: 'api/engine'
    engines: [engine1, engine2]
    verify: '/path/to/certificate.pem'

Here, you could either specify the process engine using the --shard flag on the command line, or use the --all flag to execute the operation on all process engines of an environment.

If the url uses HTTPS without a certificate known to the Python request library, you can specify a path to a certificate in this configuration file.

###Contributing to Camunda Cockpit Command-Line Client This project welcomes feedback and contributions. Feel free to claim something from our "Help Wanted" items, or pitch an idea of your own. And take a look at our Contributor guidelines for info and updates about our process.

###License This project uses the Apache license, version 2.