pcpdash

Web Dashboard for Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)

Using some of the latest technologies, provide a web dashboard for the purposes of viewing a range of metrics managed by PCP and other tools.

By integrating a range of tools, give system administrators and developers an extremly easy way to monitor a range of hosts, services and applications.

Makes use of the following open source tools and technologies:

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome! Feel free to address any of the TODO's.

Documentation

TODO

Services
Configuration
Web API
Dashboard

Getting Started with PCP

On RHEL6 systems, the following commands will get you started with pcp:

yum install pcp pcp-webapi pcp-manager pcp-gui
chkconfig pmcd on
chkconfig pmwebd on
service pmcd start
service pmwebd start

Test the PCP installation by running the following:

pcp
pmprobe
pminfo

Getting started with pcpdash

git clone http://github.com/dspinoz/pcpdash.git
cd pcpdash

Preparing back-end

Using npm

npm install

Using yum

TODO Create spec file, and build pcpdash rpm for easy installation with yum

git clone https://github.com/dspinoz/nodejs
cd nodejs
git checkout build
createrepo RPMS
cat > local.repo <<EOF
[local]
name=local-nodejs
baseurl=file://`pwd`/RPMS
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
yum --config local.repo install nodejs-cube nodejs-queue-async mongodb-org nodejs-express nodejs-request nodejs-jade nodejs-statsd nodejs-statsd-cube-backend

When using yum to manage node packages, ensure the following

export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules:/usr/lib/node_modules

Preparing front-end

TODO Don't require the use of bower when using yum

npm -g install bower
bower install

Running pcpdash

./server.js

http://localhost:8080

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