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--- blog:vcenter_vm_monitoring_with_graphite [2014/10/01 02:44] – created brett
+++ blog:vcenter_vm_monitoring_with_graphite [2014/10/01 03:04] – brett
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 This was done on a CentOS 6.3 server your mileage may vary on another platform.
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+The problem I was trying to solve was that I wanted to monitor the vitals of all my VM's without having to install collectd into each VM, by talking to vCenter we can pull everything out that we need.
-You will need to have a version of collectd compiled that has the python plugin enabled.  This can be down by downloading the collectd source and building it, making sure to have python-devel package installed.
+See details on setting up [[livebox/graphite]] which I used for my xAP monitoring
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 We don't use the collectd RPM from the EPEL repository as its too old and does not have the graphite_write plugin.
+You will need to have a version of collectd compiled that has the python plugin enabled.  This can be down by downloading the collectd source and building it, making sure to have python-devel package installed.
 Mathew has a good write on the graphite / collectd compilation and configuration for graphite.  http://blog.matthewdfuller.com/2014/06/sending-collectd-metrics-to-graphite.html
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 Be sure to have this installed before run "./configure"
 <code>
+yum install python
 yum install python-devel
-<code>
+</code>
 The configuration of /opt/collectd/etc/collectd.conf requires the following entries.  Adjust the Username, Vcenter and Password to suit your environment.
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 </code>
-This works fine in my lab where I have a single vCenter instance.
+You'll need to have [[http://code.google.com/p/pysphere/|pysphere]] installed.  Paraphrasing the installation:
+<code>
+yum install python-setuptools
+easy_install -U pysphere
+</code>
+The magic script that pulls all the stats we need.  This works in my ESX 5.1 lab where I have a single vCenter instance.
+vcenter.py
 <code python>
 #!/usr/bin/python
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 </code>
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+{{tag>graphite python esx}}
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