From 994931559ddc81ca7b0a28356b0f13f5f6bdacbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: prithiv Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:29:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Provides steps and documentations for installing collectd-ceilometer-plugin with Kolla. Change-Id: Ic23a8e9a13fac1141913c438f1f94b5ec1e7b447 Closes-Bug: #1628856 Co-Authored-By: Helena McGough helena.mcgough@intel.com --- kolla/installation.rst | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kolla/template-override.j2 | 4 + 2 files changed, 150 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kolla/installation.rst create mode 100644 kolla/template-override.j2 diff --git a/kolla/installation.rst b/kolla/installation.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cb64c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/kolla/installation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +Introduction +============ + +This document describes the steps required to install, configure and verify the +operation of collectd with ceilometer plugin with Kolla. + +Pre-requisites +============== + +- Access to the internet +- Keystaone and Ceilometer enabled + +Installation of Kolla +===================== + +Please refer to this doc for instructions about how to install kolla. + + http://docs.openstack.org/developer/kolla/quickstart.html + +For the simplest installation follow the instructions for evaluation and +development purposes. + +Install Collectd with Kolla +=========================== + +To install collectd with kolla, edit the ``globals.yml`` file and change the +following settings: + +* Enable collectd so that its container is created. Additionally, enable + ceilometer and mongodb to ensure the ceilometer service is installed. + +:: + + enable_collectd: "yes" + enable_ceilometer: "yes" + enable_mongodb: "yes" + +* Edit the network settings to suit your environment by changing the + following: + +:: + + kolla_internal_vip_address: + network_interface: + neutron_external_interface: + +* To customize the images that are built with kolla change: + +:: + + kolla_base_distro: + kolla_install_type: + +In the kolla-build.conf file uncomment/paste the following lines into +the plugins section. + +:: + + [collectd-plugin-collectd-ceilometer-plugin] + type = git + location = https://github.com/openstack/collectd-ceilometer-plugin.git + reference = master + +To build the collectd container with the collectd-ceilometer-plugin +repository, copy the ``template-override.json`` file to a local directory. +Run the following command to build the container. + +:: + + kolla-build --template-override + +Verification of Collectd +======================== + +To verify the successful build of the collectd image run the following command. + +:: + + docker images | grep -i collectd + +Follow the steps in the Kolla documentation to install OpenStack, which are +provided above. Run the following command to check if the collectd container +is up and running. + +:: + + docker ps |grep -i collectd + +The status of the collectd container should be "Up". + +Configure collectd-ceilometer-plugin +==================================== + +Edit the ``/kolla/etc/collectd-ceilometer-plugin.conf`` file and replace the +varaiables with appropriate values. The passwords and endpoints will be +provided by the operator. If these entries are not provided, run the +post-deploy script as mentioned in the Kolla guide to generate the passwords +and endpoints. + +The other entries you need to edit in this file are outlined below: + +* Include the "ModulePath" to the collectd-ceilometer-plugin directory. + +:: + + ModulePath "/path/to/module" + +* Specify your endpoint address, OS_AUTH_URL "". To determine this + address, use your openstack client, run the following command and select the + keystone internalURL. + + | openstack catalog list + +* The CEILOMETER_URL_TYPE should be set for you, but if not set it to + "internalURL". + +Copy this config file to ``/etc/kolla/collectd/collectd.conf.d`` folder. + +| sudo cp collectd-ceilometer-plugin.conf /etc/kolla/collectd/collectd.conf.d + +Restart the collectd container for the changes to take affect. + +| docker restart collectd + +Verify the container is up and running. + +Verification of collectd-ceilometer-plugin +========================================== + +To verify that the plugin is working, use the ceilometer client. + +* Source the credentials provided by the kolla post-deploy script. + +| source admin-openrc.sh + +* To verify that the stats are going through to ceilometer, view the meter + list created by ceilometer. + +| ceilometer meter-list + + Check this list for the default meters that are enabled by collectd. One of + these is "cpu.cpu". Check the ceilometer sample list for this meter, to + confirm it is enabled. + +| ceilometer sample-list --meter cpu.cpu + diff --git a/kolla/template-override.j2 b/kolla/template-override.j2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dc7c04 --- /dev/null +++ b/kolla/template-override.j2 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +{% extends parent_template %} +{% block collectd_footer %} +ADD plugins-archive / +{% endblock %}