Install Collectd On Ubuntu Server 13.10

Introduction

Collectd is an open source that use to collect, transfer and store the data information of the machine and network devices.

Server Installation

Install Apache2:

apt-get update

apt-get install apache2

Install other dependencies:

apt-get install perl libconfig-general-perl librrds-perl libregexp-common-perl collectd-core libhtml-parser-perl librrd2-dev libsnmp-dev

Install collectd

apt-get install collectd

Edit main configuration file,

vi /etc/collectd/collectd.conf

with the content:

Hostname "server001"

 FQDNLookup true

 BaseDir "/var/lib/collectd"

 PIDFile "/var/run/collectd.pid"

 PluginDir "/usr/lib/collectd"

 TypesDB "/usr/share/collectd/types.db"

 Interval 10

 # Monitoring on Services

 LoadPlugin cpu

 LoadPlugin load

 LoadPlugin disk

 LoadPlugin memory

 LoadPlugin processes

 LoadPlugin swap

 LoadPlugin users

 LoadPlugin interface

 LoadPlugin rrdtool

 LoadPlugin syslog

 # Server

 LoadPlugin network

 <Plugin network>

 Listen "*" "12345"

 </Plugin>

<Plugin interface>
 Interface "eth0"
 </Plugin>

<Target "write">
 Plugin "rrdtool"
 </Target>
 <Plugin syslog>
 LogLevel info
 </Plugin>

<Plugin rrdtool>
 DataDir "/var/lib/collectd/rrd"
 </Plugin>
 Include "/etc/collectd/filters.conf"
 Include "/etc/collectd/thresholds.conf"

Restart service collectd.

service collectd restart

Download the latest version of collectd.

cd /tmp

wget http://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.4.1.tar.gz

Extract:

tar -xvf collectd-5.4.1.tar.gz

Go to folder,

cd collectd-5.4.1

Create Graphs:

cp -r /tmp/collectd-5.4.1/contrib/collection3 /var/www/

cp /tmp/collectd-5.4.1/contrib/collection.cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

Change ownership:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/collection3

Create Virtualhost,

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/collection3.conf

with content:

 <VirtualHost *:80>

 ServerAdmin servers@unixmen.com

 ServerName collectd.unixmen.com

 ServerAlias www.collectd.unixmen.com

 DocumentRoot /var/www

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/>
 Options +ExecCGI
 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
 AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/collectd.log combined
 ScriptAlias /collection3/bin/ "/var/www/collection3/bin/"
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/collection3
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/collection3/share
 RewriteRule !/collection3/bin/(graph|index|json)\.cgi$ /collection3/bin/index.cgi [R=301,L]
 </VirtualHost>

Enable site and modules.

a2ensite collection3.conf

a2enmod rewrite

a2enmod cgi

estart service apache2.

service apache2 restart

If you have the Internal DNS add it and access:

http://collectd.unixmen.com/collection3/

Client Installation

Install update:

apt-get update

Install Collectd:

apt-get install collectd

Edit main configuration file,

vi /etc/collectd/collectd.conf

with content:

Hostname "server002"

 FQDNLookup true

 BaseDir "/var/lib/collectd"

 PIDFile "/var/run/collectd.pid"

 PluginDir "/usr/lib/collectd"

 TypesDB "/usr/share/collectd/types.db"

 Interval 10

 #Timeout 5

 ReadThreads 5

LoadPlugin network
 <Plugin network>
 Server "collectd.unixmen.com" "12345"
 </Plugin>
 # Monitoring on Services
 LoadPlugin cpu
 LoadPlugin load
 LoadPlugin disk
 LoadPlugin df
 LoadPlugin memory
 LoadPlugin processes
 LoadPlugin swap
 LoadPlugin users
 LoadPlugin syslog

<Plugin syslog>
 LogLevel info
 </Plugin>

<Plugin rrdtool>
 DataDir "/var/lib/collectd/rrd"
 </Plugin>

Include "/etc/collectd/filters.conf"
 Include "/etc/collectd/thresholds.conf"

Restart service colletcd.

service collectd restart

Enjoy, Add other  service or devices info for monitoring.