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* Setting up the graphite monitoring engine | * Setting up the graphite monitoring engine | ||
* Configuring to feed xAP | * Configuring to feed xAP | ||
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+ | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
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+ | Where as cacti uses a __pull__ mechanism to reach out and gather statistics which requires something to cache previous values until the cacti back-end is ready to get them. Graphite on the other hand uses a __push__ mechanism which is much simpler. | ||
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+ | Its the preferred charting solution for xAP data. | ||
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===== Setting up Graphite ===== | ===== Setting up Graphite ===== | ||
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====== xAP Applet configuration ====== | ====== xAP Applet configuration ====== | ||
- | The sample applet that can feed data to a Carbon data aggregator is called | + | The sample applet that can feed data to a Carbon data aggregator is called |
- | The only change required is to adjust the IP address | + | The only change required is to adjust the IP address to that of your graphite server. |
<code lua> | <code lua> | ||
graphite={port=2003, | graphite={port=2003, | ||
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- | Copy the sample to / | + | Copy the sample to the / |
< | < | ||
/ | / | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | By default the applet will feed all xAPBSC.event data items to the backend | + | By default the applet will feed all xAPBSC.event data items to the back-end |
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+ | {{tag> |