Description

installs collectd client/server and configures it to forward to graphite

http://graphite.wikidot.com/

Requirements

Chef 0.10.0 or higher required (for Chef environment use)

Platform

• CentOS >= 6.3
• Ubuntu >= 12.04

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• collectd
• collectd-plugins
• monitoring
• osops-utils

Attributes

• node["collectd"]["services"]["network-listener"]["network"] - Control what network segment the listener listens on (default management)

Usage

• recipe[collectd-graphite::collectd-listener] will install a collectd server and configure it to forward metrics to graphite for visualisation
• recipe[collectd-graphite::collectd-client] will install the collectd agent

TODO

This cookbook currently doesn't have very rich topology concepts. It doesn't support multicast, it doesn't support a hierarchical topology, etc.

It should.

License and Author

Author:: Justin Shepherd ([email protected])
Author:: Jason Cannavale ([email protected])
Author:: Ron Pedde ([email protected])
Author:: Joseph Breu ([email protected])
Author:: William Kelly ([email protected])
Author:: Darren Birkett ([email protected])
Author:: Evan Callicoat ([email protected])
Author:: Matt Thompson ([email protected])

Copyright 2012, Rackspace US, Inc.

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