Re: pmmgr setup

[thirumal rao <rtrao1985@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,Â

Thanks to your blog, pmmgr is up and running... I am absolutely loving it !

http://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog3/archive/2015/09/17/pcp-and-grafana-v2

Would be great if you write (or have already written) on influxDB setup for PCP...Â

Thanks

Thirumal

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi -

rtrao1985 wrote:

> [...]Â Was very excited to learn about grafana and pmmgr
> capabilities. However, I am finding it difficult to get one source
> which provides installation and configuration details for an end to
> end setup of various PCP modules (pmlogger, pmcd, pmmgr, grafana,
> etc., ) in a distributed infrastructure for an enterprise. [...]

We could certainly outline it in a more formal place. But informally
speaking, there's very little to do to configure such a thing:

- on central server, install and activate pmmgr, pmwebd; open
 firewall (pmwebd tcp/44323); install webapps
- on each target machine, install and activate pmcd; open firewall
 (pmcd tcp/44321)
- configure the central pmmgr to locate the target machines, by some mixture
 of listing target host names or addresses in /etc/pcp/pmmgr/target-host
 or target discovery directives in /etc/pcp/pmmgr/target-discover
 (see [man pmmgr])

That's literally all there's to it. Then you start getting grafana
etc. data at http://server:44323/ with the default dashboards.

For customized grafana dashboards, you'd use grafana's built-in editor
or emacs, export the FOO.json file, then install it on the server
under /usr/share/pcp/webapps/grafana/app/dashboards/FOO.json; then
your browser / grafana will see it as
http://server:44323/grafana/index.html#/dashboard/file/FOO.json

- FChE

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