DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Installs and configures Ganglia.

ganglia.sourceforge.net/

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

• SELinux must be disabled on CentOS

• iptables must allow access to port 80

ATTRIBUTES:¶ ↑

See the ‘attributes/ganglia.rb` file.

USAGE:¶ ↑

A run list with “recipe” enables monitoring.

A run list with “recipe” enables the web interface. NOTE: if you’re using apache, and you want to run the ganglia web interface on a different port, you should configure that with attributes available from the apache cookbooks:

default[:apache][:listen_ports]

However, This cookbook does make several attributes available to write an apache virtual host config file.

A run list with “recipe” enables graphite graphs.

LWRP:¶ ↑

gmetric¶ ↑

Installs a gmetric plugin.

The plugin is composed of two templates:

• One for the script

• One for the cron job that will call the script

The templates must be in the caller cookbook.

Example:

ganglia_gmetric 'memcache' do
    options :port => 11211
end

templates:
cookbooks/memcache/templates/default/memcache.gmetric.erb
cookbooks/memcache/templates/default/memcache.cron.erb

The content of ‘options’ will be passed to the templates

python¶ ↑

Installs a python plugin.

The plugin is composed of two templates:

• One for the python module

• One for the configuration of the module

The templates must be in the caller cookbook.

Example:

ganglia_python 'memcache' do
    options :port => 11211
end

templates:
cookbooks/memcache/templates/default/memcache.py.erb
cookbooks/memcache/templates/default/memcache.pyconf.erb

The content of ‘options’ will be passed to the templates

CAVEATS: ¶ ↑

This cookbook has been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 and Centos 5.5.

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