/puppet-ganglia

A Puppet report processor that sends metrics to Ganglia via gmetric

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puppet-ganglia

Description

A Puppet report processor for sending metrics to a Ganglia server via gmetric.

Requirements

  • gmetric gem
  • Puppet
  • A Ganglia server

Installation & Usage

  1. Install the gmetric gem on your Puppet master

    $ sudo gem install gmetric

  2. Install puppet-ganglia as a module in your Puppet master's module path.

  3. Update the ganglia_server and ganglia_port variables in the ganglia.yaml file with your Ganglia server IP and port and copy the file to /etc/puppet/. An example file is included.

  4. Enable pluginsync and reports on your master and clients in puppet.conf

    [master]
report = true
reports = ganglia
pluginsync = true
[agent]
report = true
pluginsync = true

  5. Run the Puppet client and sync the report as a plugin

Author

James Turnbull james@lovedthanlost.net

License

Author:: James Turnbull (<james@lovedthanlost.net>)
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 James Turnbull
License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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