Nov 3, 2008 3:50 PM
Question about Zenoss collectors / Remote servers
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Alas,
I couldn't get the Wiki entry to work. It turned into a hodgepodge of the wiki instructions, and using the search tool, tcpdump, python hackery, and extensive debugging turned on to get this all to work.
Key parts I followed in the Wiki
1. Created CNAMES
2. Opened Ports
3. zenrender needs to be turned on the remote collector
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7257&highlight=remote+collector+zenrender
and
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=2218&highlight=remote+collector+zenrender
Make sure your ZENHOME/bin/zenoss contains the services you want to run. Since you are talking to a centralized zenhub it stays off. Right or wrong, this is what mine looks like
C="C zeoctl"
C="C zopectl"
#C="C zenhub"
C="C zenping"
#C="C zensyslog"
#C="C zenstatus"
C="C zenactions"
#C="C zentrap"
C="C zenmodeler"
C="C zenrender"
C="C zenperfsnmp"
C="C zencommand"
C="C zenprocess"
#C="C zenmail"
Can't find the link now, but somewhere a bug report was opened up to make almost all the packages talk to a central zenhub(maybe posted by Chet?). As you can see, zenping is running as well, and picks up the hosts assigned to it.
4) Create the performance monitor named after the remote collector. Then forget everything else and put http://centralhubhost:8090/remote.collectordomain.com substituting the correct names in.
Then forget everything else in step 4. This is based off of http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=3672&highlight=8090 and
http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=7257&highlight=8090
ZenOSS uses XML-RPC when you point the renderserver to 8090, and issues a call to zenrender on the remote collector. The remote collector then reads the RRD files on it's filesystem, creates the graphic, and ships it back to the Central Hub.
Ignore Step 5
6) do this when you edit all the ZENHOME/etc/*conf files. Make sure you keep the 8100 in the line.
7) You can use this, or what I did above..
8) Didn't have to worry about
9) From what I can tell, zenhub is putting events right into the centralhub
10) Make sure you change the collectors for the devices you have in the central hub. They need to have the remote collector as their collector.
Then you should be sitting in Happy City, with all kinds of performance metrics being checked.
Caveat. Zenpacks must live in the same place, since the centralized server issues the same command globally.
As always ZENHOME/log/*.log is your friend and learning zendmd isn't to bad of an idea eather. If you have a question, or the ZenOSS dudes think I've posted something wrong here, let me know.
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file: $ZENHOME/etc/zenperfsnmp.conf
monitor collector.zenoss.domain
hubhost mainserver.zenoss.domain
If
1) I could get someone to verify this for me, since I have it
working in my environment, but would like to confirm the process works
and
2) Someone gives me a quick howto on the Wiki .
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Login to the website (with your forum credentials) and go to:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/wiki/user-contributed/
Click "add item" near the top right. Select "page" and add whatever
content you want.
At some point we'll revisit replacing the wiki, right now there's only
so many hours in the day and I'm headed out on vacation.
Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
community.zenoss.com
mray@zenoss.com
On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:41 AM, chardy wrote:
If
1) I could get someone to verify this for me, since I have it
working in my environment, but would like to confirm the process works
and
2) Someone gives me a quick howto on the Wiki .
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zenoss-users@zenoss.org
http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
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_______________________________________________
Login to the website (with your forum credentials) and go to:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/wiki/user-contributed/
Click "add item" near the top right. Select "page" and add whatever
content you want.
At some point we'll revisit replacing the wiki, right now there's only
so many hours in the day and I'm headed out on vacation.
Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
community.zenoss.com
mray@zenoss.com
On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:41 AM, chardy wrote:
If
1) I could get someone to verify this for me, since I have it
working in my environment, but would like to confirm the process works
and
2) Someone gives me a quick howto on the Wiki .
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http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
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