Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
Byan,
I just threw up our modified version of the Atari collectd cookbook on Github. One of my coworkers a tiny bit to get RPM based CentOS installs to work. As for the RPM, there’s a script on github (not sure where exactly) that builds the 5.1 RPMs.
https://github.com/tas50/tas50_cookbooks/tree/master/collectd
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From: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry@gmail.commailto:bryan.berry@gmail.com>
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Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:15 PM
To: "chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com" <chef@lists.opscode.commailto:chef@lists.opscode.com>
Subject: [chef] Collectd for centos?
Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
Bryan,
I've been building one for RHEL over the past couple days that should work
on centos with minor/no tweaking. I'm almost done. Just working on one
last issue.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
Tks bryan I look forward to seeing what u have. I really need the write to
graphite functionality
On Jul 17, 2012 9:35 PM, "Bryan Brandau" agent462@gmail.com wrote:
Bryan,
I've been building one for RHEL over the past couple days that should work
on centos with minor/no tweaking. I'm almost done. Just working on one
last issue.On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.comwrote:
Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
Hi Bryan,
I can't share the collectd cookbook I have done for my client, but I
can share the RPMs I have for CentOS 5/6.
You can find the source over at
https://github.com/eolamey/pakk/tree/master/packages/collectd5 and a
yum repository is available at http://pakk.96b.it/
You could use EPEL packages, but they are stuck with collectd 4.x
and it's much harder to send metrics to graphite.
I'm writing to graphite so you'll see how that is built right in.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
Tks bryan I look forward to seeing what u have. I really need the write
to graphite functionality
On Jul 17, 2012 9:35 PM, "Bryan Brandau" agent462@gmail.com wrote:Bryan,
I've been building one for RHEL over the past couple days that should
work on centos with minor/no tweaking. I'm almost done. Just working on
one last issue.On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.comwrote:
Is there a collectd cookbook that works with centos?
I need one desperately!
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Bryan Berry bryan.berry@gmail.com wrote:
Tks bryan I look forward to seeing what u have. I really need the write to
graphite functionality
That is why we eventually went to creating a custom cookbook. You can
see the results up at [1] - we eventually went with compiling from
source which I would assume works with rhel. We have prototyped using
fpm to create a deb and presumably a rpm could be created in that
manner as well. Even if you develop your own I would recommend
yoinking out the LWRP and the attribute_driven recipe from [1] 
It allows you to configure your collectd configuration via something
like the following. I also documented part of it at [2]
node.override['collectd']['name'] = node['hostname']
node.override['collectd']['plugins'] =
{
'syslog' => {'config' => {"LogLevel" => "Info"}},
'disk' => {},
'swap' => {},
'memory' => {},
'cpu' => {},
'interface' => {'config' => {"Interface" => "lo", "IgnoreSelected"
=> true}},
'df' => {'config' => {"ReportReserved" => false,
"FSType" => ["proc", "sysfs", "fusectl",
"debugfs", "devtmpfs", "devpts", "tmpfs"],
"IgnoreSelected" => true}},
}
graphite_host, graphite_port = ... # Use utility method to search for
graphite server
if graphite_host
node.override['collectd']['plugins']['write_graphite'] =
{'config' => {'Host' => graphite_host,
'Port' => graphite_port,
'Prefix' => "#{node.chef_environment}.node."}}
end
include_recipe "collectd::attribute_driven"
[1] https://github.com/realityforge-cookbooks/collectd
[2] http://realityforge.org/code/2012/06/29/monitoring-as-part-of-the-definition-of-done.html
Cheers,
Peter Donald